Unplugged

by Colby, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780814408827
• ISBN10: 0814408826
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-30
• Publisher: Amacom Books

Summary

Unplugged addresses the fundamental questions of the right-to-die debate, and discusses how the medical advances that bring so much hope and healing have also helped to create today's dilemma. This compelling book explores recent high-profile cases, including that of Terry Schiavo, and illuminates the complex legal, ethical, medical and deeply personal issues of a debate that ultimately affects us all.

Author Biography

William Colby (Kansas City, MO) is the lawyer who represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the first right-to-die case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. He has appeared on Larry King Live, Hardball, Frontline, Today, CBS This Morning, and many national news network programs. He is a Senior Fellow with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in Washington, D.C. , and the author of Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	ix
INTRODUCTION	xi
PART ONE
1 Terri Schiavo's Private Years	3	(18)
2 Terri Schiavo's Public Years	21	(26)
3 The Autopsy of Terri Schiavo	47	(10)
PART TWO
4 The Ascent of Medical Technology	57	(16)
5 The Law and the Right to Die	73	(14)
6 The Case of Nancy Cruzan	87	(8)
7 How We Die in America Today	95	(14)
8 Dying on the "Institutional Glide Path"	109	(16)
9 In Terri Schiavo's Shoes	125	(16)
10 My "Living Will"	141	(8)
11 Feeding Tubes—The Hardest Question	149	(16)
12 But I Believe in the Right to Life!	165	(10)
13 Special Concerns of the Disabled Community	175	(10)
14 Oregon v. Ashcroft/Gonzales and Physician-Assisted Suicide	185	(16)
15 Hospice: The Hidden Jewel	201	(16)
16 Where Do We Go from Here?	217	(4)
APPENDIX	221	(6)
NOTES	227	(22)
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND ADDITIONAL READING	249	(4)
RESOURCES	253	(6)
INDEX	259