Against Physician Assisted Suicide: A Palliative Care Perspective

by David Jeffrey and Fraser MacFarlane

The majority of doctors and nurses involved in specialist palliative care reject the legalisation of physician assisted suicide (PAS). This book explores the reasons why the healthcare professionals who have the most experience of caring for dying patients should object to a change in the law. Debate about euthanasia and PAS often arises in response to a well publicised tragic case of unrelieved suffering. Such heart rending stories do not reflect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846191866
• ISBN13: 9781846191862
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"