Hospice Care as an Alternative to Euthanasia
Creator
Miller, Robert J.
Bibliographic Citation
Law, Medicine and Health Care. 1992 Spring-Summer; 20(1-2): 127-132.
Abstract
The same concerns that have led society to consider euthanasia as an option for relieving the suffering of the dying led to the development of the hospice movement. How effectively has hospice care met these needs, and is there still a need for euthanasia? Is the hospice approach to death an alternative to euthanasia, compatible with euthanasia, or euthanasia in another form? Do those health care workers who are drawn to providing hospice care favor or oppose euthanasia?....
Date
1992Subject
Administrators; Allowing to Die; Assisted Suicide; Attitudes; Attitudes to Death; Autonomy; Death; Drugs; Euthanasia; Health; Health Care; Health Personnel; Hospices; Nurses; Pain; Patient Advocacy; Physicians; Political Activity; Public Opinion; Public Policy; Right to Die; Social Workers; Suffering; Suicide; Survey; Terminal Care; Terminally Ill; Voluntary Euthanasia;
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Hospice Care an Alternative to Euthanasia
Miller, Robert J. (1992-03)