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Tables of Contents for Physician-Assisted Suicide
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
vii
Robert F. Weir
Part I. Historical Interpretations
3
66
1. The Significance of Inaccurate History in Legal Considerations of Physician-Assisted Suicide
3
30
Darrel W. Amundsen
2. Doctors and the Dying of Patients in American History
33
36
Harold Y. Vanderpool
Part II. Ethical Assessments and Positions
69
38
3. Self-Extinction The Morality of the Helping Hand
69
17
Daniel Callahan
4. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Sometimes Morally Justified
86
21
Dan W. Brock
Part III. Medical Practices and Perspectives
107
48
5. Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Not an Acceptable Practice for Physicians
107
29
Ira R. Byock
6. Assisting in Patient Suicides Is an Acceptable Practice for Physicians
136
19
Howard Brody
Part IV. Potentially Vulnerable Patients
155
50
7. Physician-Assisted Death in the Context of Disability
155
12
Kristi L. Kirschner
Carol J. Gill
Christine K. Cassel
8. Physician-Assisted Suicide, Abortion, and Treatment Refusal Using Gender to Analyze the Difference
167
38
Susan M. Wolf
Part V. Public Policy Options and Recommendations
205
38
9. Considerations of Safeguards Proposed in Laws and Guidelines to Legalize Assisted Suicide
205
19
Steven Miles
Demetra M. Pappas
Robert Koepp
10. Physician-Assisted Suicide Evolving Public Policies
224
19
William J. Winslade
APPENDIXES
243
People v. Kevorkian, Supreme Court of Michigan, 1994
243
3
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1996
246
7
Quill v. Vacco, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1996
253
4
CONTRIBUTORS
257
2
INDEX
259