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About This Book
ix
Introduction
1
10
I. CLASSICAL, CHRISTIAN, AND EARLY MODERN THOUGHT
11
36
1. Western Thought on Suicide: From Plato to Kant
11
36
Michael M. Uhlmann
II. CONTEMPORARY MORAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
47
204
Introduction to the Section
47
10
2. The History of Suicide
57
18
A. Alvarez
3. Do We Have a Right to Die?
75
20
Ronald Dworkin
4. The Right to Die--Again
95
16
Hadley V. Arkes
5. Ethical Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide
111
36
Margaret Pabst Battin
6. Always to Care, Never to Kill: A Declaration on Euthanasia
147
6
The Ramsey Colloquium
7. Jewish Views on Euthanasia
153
18
Byron L. Sherwin
8. Rethinking Life and Death: A New Ethical Approach
171
28
Peter Singer
9. Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Life
199
24
Leon R. Kass
10. The Gospel of Life
223
14
Pope John Paul II
11. Euthanasia and Christian Vision
237
14
Gilbert Meilaender
III. MEDICAL PERSPECTIVES
251
158
Introduction to the Section
251
6
12. Rethinking the Hippocratic Oath
257
6
Edmund D. Pellegrino
13. A Fail-safe Model for Justifiable Medically Assisted Suicide
263
34
Jack Kevorkian
14. Why Doctors Must Not Kill
297
10
Leon R. Kass
15. The Case for Rational Suicide
307
10
Derek Humphry
16. It's Over, Debbie
317
2
Anonymous
17. Death and Dignity: A. The Case of Diane
319
24
B. Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide
326
10
C. The Case of Diane Revisited
336
7
Timothy E. Quill
18. Active Voluntary Euthanasia: Opening Pandora's Box
343
24
D. Alan Shewmon
19. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Dutch Experience
367
20
Herbert Hendin
20. Aiding the Death of Young Children: Ethical Issues
387
12
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
21. A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide Excerpt from Code of Medical Ethics
406
3
American Medical Association
IV. LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
409
226
Introduction to the Section
409
8
22. Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Legal Consensus
417
28
Alan Meisel
23. Are Laws Against Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional?
445
18
Yale Kamisar
24. The Constitution and Hastening Inevitable Death
463
12
Robert A. Sedler
25. Three Court Decisions:
475
58
A. Compassion in Dying v. Washington (1995) Judge John Noonan
475
9
B. Compassion in Dying v. Washington (1996) Judge Stephen Reinhardt
484
33
C. Quill v. Vacco (1996)
517
16
Judge John Miner
517
12
Judge Guido Calabresi
529
4
26. Assisted Suicide in the United States: The 'Compassion' and 'Quill' Decisions
533
18
Victor G. Rosenblum
27. A Model State Act to Authorize and Regulate Physician-Assisted Suicide
551
26
Charles H. Baron and Others
28. The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: Creating a Potemkin Village
577
22
Daniel Callahan
Margot White
29. The Supreme Court Decides: Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
599
31
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
600
30
Others: O'Connor
613
1
Stevens
614
8
Souter
622
5
Ginsburg
627
1
Breyer
627
3
Vacco v. Quill (1997) Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist
630
5
Others: Souter
633
2
Notes
635
32
Index of Names
667
9
Index of Cases
676