Attitudes of women from vulnerable populations toward physician-assisted death: A qualitative approach

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 279-289

  Morrow, Elizabeth ^a  

^a Pacific Institute for Women's Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; FAMILY; FEMALE; FREEDOM; HISPANIC; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONG TERM CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUP; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; RESEARCH; TRUST; UNITED STATES; VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; EMPIRICAL APPROACH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE, VOLUNTARY; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FREEDOM; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MIDDLE AGED; MINORITY GROUPS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PERSONS; POVERTY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; RESEARCH; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TRUST; UNITED STATES; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS; WOMEN;

EID: 0031219037     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. L.J. Schneiderman, "Medical Futility and Aging: Ethical Implications," Generations (Winter 1994): 61-65, at 61.
2. "Euthanasia Backed in Terminal Illness by 53% in a Poll," New York Times, 2 August 1973, 41.
3. World Opinion Update 19, no. 2 (February 1995): 17.
4. T.H. Stone and W.J. Winslade, "Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the United States: Legal and Ethical Observations," Journal of Legal Medicine 16 (December 1995): 481-507, at 486.