The euthanasia/assisted-suicide debate [electronic resource] / Demetra M. Pappas.
Pappas, Demetra M.
2012
KF3827.E87 P37 2012eb
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Title The euthanasia/assisted-suicide debate [electronic resource] / Demetra M. Pappas.
Author Pappas, Demetra M.
ISBN 9780313341885 electronic book
9780313341878 hardcover
Imprint Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 183 p.)
Call Number KF3827.E87 P37 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 344.7304/197
Summary Overview: Emotional public responses to widely publicized right-to-die and euthanasia cases, such as those revolving around Dr. Jack Kevorkian and Terri Schiavo, highlight their volatile mix of medical, ethical, religious, legal, and public policy issues. The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate explores how this debate has evolved over the past 100 years as judicial approaches, legislative responses, and prosecutorial practices have shifted as a result of changes in medical technology and consumer sophistication. Emphasizing the period from the 1950s forward, the book offers an unbiased examination of the origins of the modern medical euthanasia and assisted-suicide debates, the involvement of physicians, the history and significance of medical technology and practice, and the role of patients and their families in the ongoing controversy. This illuminating exploration of concepts, issues, and players will help readers understand both sides of the debate as viewed by participants.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-177) and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Historical guides to controversial issues in America.
Available in Other Form Euthanasia/assisted-suicide debate.
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Medical euthanasia and assisted suicide: a twentieth-century issue
1930s and 1940s: from the King of England to the Holocaust
1950s: the first Anglo-American prosecutions for medical euthanasia and the resulting academic debate
1960s-1980s: decriminalizing suicide and non-voluntary euthanasia of those in persistent vegetative states
1990s and Jack "Dr Death" Kevorkian: from physician-assisted suicide to medical euthanasia
1990s: the non-Michigan parallel text of doctor prosecution and initial failed legislative efforts
Legalizing and implementing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in the 1990s and 2000s
2000s: post-millennium case studies of state reactions to euthanasia and assisted suicide
Concluding commentary
Appendix: Table of cases, legislation, proposed legislation, and initiatives.

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