The politics of physician-assisted death: California's proposition 161 and attitudes of the elderly

Politics and the Life Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 273-280

  Clark, Nina ^a,b   Liebig, Phoebe S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Unit F   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ATTITUDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EUTHANASIA; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JEW; LAW; LEGAL APPROACH; MALE; PHYSICIAN; POLICY; POLITICS; PROPOSITION 161 (CALIFORNIA); PUBLIC OPINION; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; LEGAL APPROACH; PROPOSITION 161 (CALIFORNIA);

AGED; ATTITUDE; CALIFORNIA; CATHOLICISM; CHRISTIANITY; DATA COLLECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EUTHANASIA; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEWS; LEGISLATION; LOS ANGELES; MEN; PHYSICIANS; POLITICS; PROTESTANTISM; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; RELIGION; RIGHT TO DIE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STATE GOVERNMENT; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 0030230896     PISSN: 07309384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S073093840002298X     Document Type: Article

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