What happens now? Oregon and physician-assisted suicide

Hasting Center Report

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 9-17

  Woolfrey, Joan ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTIVE EUTHANASIA; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED SUICIDE; BIOETHICS; CONFLICT; CONSENSUS; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OREGON); FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HOSPICE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGAL APPROACH; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; OREGON HOSPICE ASSOCIATION; OREGON MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIANS FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE; RELIGION; TASK FORCE TO IMPROVE THE CARE OF TERMINALLY-ILL OREGONIANS; UNITED STATES;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT (OREGON); LEGAL APPROACH; OREGON HOSPICE ASSOCIATION; OREGON MEDICAL ASSOCIATION; PHYSICIANS FOR COMPASSIONATE CARE; TASK FORCE TO IMPROVE THE CARE OF TERMINALLY-ILL OREGONIANS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOETHICS; CONSENSUS; DISCLOSURE; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; ETHICS, MEDICAL; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HOSPICES; HUMANS; MALE; OREGON; PHARMACISTS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SUICIDE, ASSISTED;

EID: 0032058607     PISSN: 00930334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3528645     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Mid-Valley Physician Assisted Suicide Interest Group, "Medical Guidelines on Assisted Suicide," Reflections, Newsletter of the Program for Ethics, Science and the Environment, Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University (special issue, 1997), p. 11.
2. Task Force to Improve the Care of Terminally Ill Oregonians, Oregon Death with Dignity Act: A Guidebook for Health Care Providers (Portland: Oregon Health Sciences University, 1998).
3. Mid-Valley Physician Assisted Suicide Interest Group, "Medical Guidelines," p. 11.
4. Mid-Valley Physician Assisted Suicide Interest Group, "Medical Guidelines," p. 11.
5. Katrina Hedberg, "Oregon PAS Reporting Requirements," Medical College of Wisconsin Bioethics Discussion Forum, mcw-bioethics@post.its.mcw.edu, 20 April 1998.
6. Erin Hoover and Gail Kinsey Hill, "Two Die Using Suicide Laws," The Oregonian, 26 March 1998;
7. Erin Hoover, "Assisted Suicides Cause Reflection," The Oregonian, 27 March 1998.