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" Giving death a helping hand "
edited by Dieter Birnbacher and Edgar Dahl.
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BL
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600649
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b429868
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Giving death a helping hand : physician-assisted suicide and public policy. An international perspective /\ edited by Dieter Birnbacher and Edgar Dahl.
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[Dordrecht] :: Springer,, c2008.
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International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ;; v. 38
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xii, 157 p. ;; 25 cm.
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9781402064951 (hbk.)
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: 1402064950 (hbk.)
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: 1402064969 (ebk.)
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: 9781402064968 (ebk.)
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Contents
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Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized? / Gerald Dworkin -- Slippery slopes and physician-assisted suicide / Neil Levy -- Physician-assisted suicide and the medical associations / Dieter Birnbacher -- Safe, legal, rare? Physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Palliative options of last resort: a comparison of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, terminal sedation, physician-assisted suicide, and voluntary active euthanasia / Timothy E. Quill, Bernard Lo, Dan W. Brock -- Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon / Linda Ganzini, Edgar Dahl -- Physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands and Belgium / John Griffiths -- Physician-assisted suicide and the German criminal law / Gabriele Wolfslast -- Physician-assisted death: an Australian perspective / Alan Rothschild -- Assisted dying: the view from the United Kingdom / Sheila A. M. McLean -- Physician-assisted suicide: a doctor's perspective / Pieter Admiraal -- Physician-assisted suicide in Switzerland: a personal report / Elke M. Baezner-Sailer -- The European convention on human rights protects the right of suicide / Ludwig A. Minelli.
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Assisted suicide.
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Assisted suicide-- Law and legislation.
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Birnbacher, Dieter.
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Dahl, Edgar,1962-
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