Should physicians assist the reaper?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 44-49

  Haber, Joram Graf ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MENTAL STRESS; MORALITY; PATIENT ADVOCACY; POLICY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA;

DISCLOSURE; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; HUMANS; MORALS; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PUBLIC POLICY; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 0030472675     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s096318010000671x     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Battin MB. Ethical Issues in Suicide. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1995, Chap. 7.
2. Brandt RB. The morality and rationality of suicide. In: Perlin S, Ed. Handbook Study of Suicide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975:61-76. Reprinted in Donnelly J. Ed. Suicide: Right or Wrong. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1990:185-200. Believing that suicide is sometimes rational, Brandt suggests that it may appropriate to assist with suicide provided it does not involve great cost to the assistant. See pp. 196-8 in Donnelly.
3. Brandt RB. The morality and rationality of suicide. In: Perlin S, Ed. Handbook Study of Suicide. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975:61-76. Reprinted in Donnelly J. Ed. Suicide: Right or Wrong. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1990:185-200. Believing that suicide is sometimes rational, Brandt suggests that it may appropriate to assist with suicide provided it does not involve great cost to the assistant. See pp. 196-8 in Donnelly.
4. Aquinas T. "Whether It Is Lawful to Kill Oneself?" Summa Theologica, Vol. 2. New York: Benziger Brothers, Inc. and London: Burns & Oaks, Ltd., 1925: Part 2, Question 64, A5.
5. Kant I. Lectures in Ethics [Trans. Louis Infield]. New York: Harper & Row, 1963:147-57.