A Middle Ground on Physician-Assisted Suicide

“[A] murder prosecution is a poor way to design an ethical and moral code for doctors,” observed the California Court of Appeal in 1983. Yet, physicians who have chosen to help terminally ill patients to commit suicide have trespassed on illegal ground. When skilled medical care fails to relieve the...

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Authors: Tulsky, James A. (Author) ; Alpers, Ann (Author) ; Lo, Bernard (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1996
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-43
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