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Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice
from: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
EAN: 9780801880704
Edition: 1
ISBN: 080188070X
Label: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 08, 2004
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Studio: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Editorial Review:"Although presented as a series of separate essays written by the most knowledgeable medical and legal experts dealing with end-of-life issues, Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice is in truth a perfectly realized whole -- one that will reward any careful reader with a rich, detailed, and historically grounded understanding of how we have at times come to grips with, but more often tried to evade, the moral, legal, and ultimately political dilemmas that are posed by one overwhelming question: How can we better assure the ethical and compassionate treatment of those who are approaching the end of their days, and of those closest to them, in ways that fully respect the needs, values, and choices of the individuals most intimately involved?" -- Laurence H. Tribe, Harvard University
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Well, no one writes more compassionately about dying patients than Timothy Quill. Not only does he have the intelligence and sensitivity to write about these issues, he has had the courage to defend compassionate approaches to dying in courts of law (see Vacco v. Quill, U. S. Supreme Court) but he has also engaged in "medical civil disobedience" on at least one occasion.
But what is more interesting is that he knows enough about the conceptual and philosophical issues regarding death ... Read More
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