Drug Use in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

by Battin, Margaret Pabst; Lipman, Arthur G.

• ISBN13: 9781560248439
• ISBN10: 1560248432
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-12-01
• Publisher: CRC Pr I Llc

Table of Contents

About the Contributors	xiii
Introduction: The Need to Objectively Examine Issues in Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia	1	(10)
Margaret P. Battin
Arthur G. Lipman
ETHICAL AND INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND POLICY ISSUES
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Arguments For and Against Practice, Legalization and Participation	11	(32)
Ronald Baker Miller
Issues for Pharmacists in Assisted Patient Death	43	(12)
Michael T. Rupp
Nursing Perspectives on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia	55	(12)
Betty R. Ferrell
Lynne M. Rivera
THE PATIENT'S SITUATION
Suffering and the Dying Patient	67	(24)
C. Richard Chapman
Jonathan Gavrin
End of Life Issues in Patients with AIDS: Clinical and Research Considerations	91	(22)
Steven D. Passik
Margaret V. McDonald
Barry D. Rosenfeld
William S. Breitbart
LEGAL AND REGULATORY ISSUES IN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA
A View of Current Law on Withholding and Withdrawing Treatment at the End of Life	113	(14)
Robert T. Angarola
Gail P. Middlekauff
Is Physician Aid-in-Dying a Constitutional Right?	127	(12)
Kathryn L. Tucker
Current Law on Physician-Assisted Suicide for the Terminally Ill	139	(12)
Cheryl K. Smith
Pharmacists' Response to Oregon's Death with Dignity Act	151	(8)
Kristine Carlson Marcus
Regulatory Issues in Euthanasia, Palliative Care and Assisted Suicide	159	(18)
William L. Marcus
DRUG USE IN ASSISTED SUICIDE AND EUTHANASIA
Lethal Drugs for Assisted Suicide: How the Public Sees It	177	(6)
Derek Humphry
Observations Concerning Terminally Ill Patients Who Choose Suicide	183	(10)
Thomas A. Preston
Ralph Mero
Euthanasia and Euthanizing Drugs in the Netherlands	193	(18)
Gerrit K. Kimsma
Toxicological Issues with Drugs Used to End Life	211	(12)
Barbara Insley Crouch
When Drugs Fail: Assisted Deaths and Not-So-Lethal Drugs	223	(22)
Stephen Jamison
COMMENTARIES
Position Statements on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide	245	(46)
Arthur G. Lipman
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Cases and Commentaries	291	(54)
Sharon M. Valente
Judith M. Saunders
Charles Corr
Karen M. Corr
Peter J. Katsufrakis
Richard MacDonald
Fred S. Marcus
Barbara Jeanne McGuire
Jerome A. Motto
John Samuel Rozel
Judith M. Saunders
Bryan Tanney
Sharon M. Valente
James L. Werth, Jr.
Bruce D. White
Index	345