The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-Of-Life Care

Book Overview

In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done in the Netherlands, Oregon, and Australia by the editors and contributors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801879019
• ISBN13: 9780801879012
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"