Assisted suicide, terminal illness, severe disability, and the double standard

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 149-161

  Ackerman, Felicia ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (26)

1. Yale Kamisar, "Against Assisted Suicide-Even a Very Limited Form, "University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 72 (4) (1995): 735-69
2. Yale Kamisar, "Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Last Bridge to Active Voluntary Euthanasia, "in John Keown, ed., Euthanasia Examined (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), pp. 225-60
3. Yale Kamisar, "The Reasons So Many People Support Physician-Assisted Suicide-And Why These Reasons Are Not Convincing, "Issues in Law and Medicine 12 (2) (1996): 113-31
4. Yale Kamisar, "The 'Right to Die': On Drawing (and Erasing) Lines, "Duquesne Law Review 35 (1) (1996): 481-521.
5. Mireya Navarro, "Assisted Suicide Decision Looms in Florida, "New York Times, July 3, 1997, A14.
6. Leon Kass and Nelson Lund, "Courting Death: Assisted Suicide, Doctors, and the Law, "Commentary 100 (December 1996): 23.
7. Jane Brody, "Personal Health" column, New York Times, June 18, 1997. See also H. M. Chochinov, et al., "Desire for Death in the Terminally Ill, "American journal of Psychiatry 152 (8) (1995): 1185-91.
8. See also H. M. Chochinov, et al., "Desire for Death in the Terminally Ill, "American journal of Psychiatry 152 (8) (1995): 1185-91.
9. Kamisar, "Against Assisted Suicide-Even a Very Limited Form, "740-41.
10. Jane Gross, "Quiet Doctor Finds a Mission in Assisted Suicide Case, "New York Times, January 2, 1997, p. Bl.
11. R. Dworkin, et al., "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief, "New York Review of Books, March 27, 1997, p. 44. See also appendix Bin this volume.
12. B. Menard and C. Perrone, Hospice Care: An Introduction and Review of the Evidence (Arlington, VA: National Hospice Organization, 1994), p. 4. The term "philosophy of hospice" is theirs.
13. R. Dworkin, introduction to "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief,'' New York Review of Books, March 27, 1997, p. 41.
14. Gerald S. Goldstein, "How to Live, "Brown Alumni Monthly, March 1996, p. 32.
15. Steven Erlanger, "A Scholar's Suicide: Trying to Spare a Family Anguish, "New York Times, October 26, 1987, p. B1
16. Marcia Angell, "The Supreme Court and Physician-Assisted Suicide-The Ultimate Right, "New England Journal of Medicine, 336 (January 2, 1997): 52.
17. Ann Hood, "Rage Against the Dying of the Light, "op-ed, New York Times, August 2, 1997.
18. Velleman, "Against the Right to Die. "(His view have some complexities that I am not addressing.)
19. Dworkin, et al., "The Philosophers' Brief,'' p. 46. See also appendix B in this volume.
20. John Hardwig, "Is There a Duty to Die?" Hastings Center Report 27 (2) (March/April 1997): 36.
21. John Hardwig, "Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)assisted Suicide, "in H. LaFollette (ed.), Ethics in Practice (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 53-65.
22. Hard wig, "Is There a Duty to Die?" p. 40.
23. Ackerman, "Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilych: A Critical Look at the 'Philosophy of Hospice,'" p. 318.
24. Daniel Callahan, What Kind of Life? (New York: Simon and Shuster, 1990)
25. Kass and Lund, "Courting Death: Assisted Suicide, Doctors, and the Law. "
26. Dworkin, Life's Dominion, p. 222-24.