An alternative to physician-assisted suicide: A conceptual and moral analysis

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 182-202

  Gert, Bernard ^a   Culver, Charles M ^b   Clouser, K Danner ^c  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b BARRY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (11)

1. This article is derived from our book, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
2. Dan W. Brock, "Voluntary Active Euthanasia, "Hastings Center Report 22 (2): 10-22 (1992).
3. James L. Bernat, Bernard Gert, and R. Peter Mogielnicki, "Patient Refusal of Hydration and Nutrition: An Alternative to Physician Assisted Suicide orVoluntary Euthanasia, "Archives of Internal Medicine 153: 2723-28 (December 27, 1993).
4. Bernard Gert, James L. Bernat, and R. Peter Mogielnicki, "Distinguishing between Patients' Refusals and Requests, "The Hastings Center Report 24 (4): 13-15 (JulyAugust 1994).
5. Bernard Gert, Morality: Its Nature and Justification (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), for detailed analyses of impartiality, rationality, duty, and publicly allowing.
6. K. Danner Clouser, "Allowing or Causing: Another Look, "Annals of Internal Medicine 87: 622-24 (1977).
7. Kathleen M. Foley, M.D., "The Relationship of Pain and Symptom Management to Patient Requests for Physician-Assisted Suicide, "Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 6 (5): 289-297 (July 1991).
8. Tom L. Beauchamp, "Suicide" in Tom Regan, ed., Matters of Life and Death, 2nd ed. (New York: Random House, 1986), pp. 77-89.
9. David Eddy's article about his mother refusing food and fluids. Journal of the American Medical Association 272: 179-81 (1994).
10. Bernard Gert, Charles M. Culver, and K. Danner Clouser, Bioethics: A Return to Fundamentals, chapter 12, "Euthanasia. "
11. K. Danner Clouser, "The Challenge for Future Debate on Euthanasia, "The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management6 (5): 306-311 (July 1991).