Physician-Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy -- or Medicalizing Suicide?
Creator
Salem, Tania
Bibliographic Citation
Hastings Center Report. 1999 May-Jun; 29(3): 30-36.
Abstract
Assisted suicide, many argue, honors self-determination in returning control of their dying to patients themselves. But physician assistance and measures proposed to safeguard patients from coercion in fact return ultimate authority over this "private and deeply personal" decision to medicine and society.
Date
1999-05Collections
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