Euthanasia
Euthanasia | Safeguards Can Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
In the first part of the following two-part viewpoint, David Orentlicher contends that the potential for doctors to abuse physician-assisted suicide can be reduced by requiring patients who choose suicide to self-administer the fatal dose of medication. Orentlicher is a professor of law and former director of the American Medical Association’s Division of Medical Ethics. In the second part, Robert Young, a professor of philosophy at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues that the Dutch policy of permitting voluntary euthanasia has not been widely abused, as many critics...
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- Introduction
- Table of Contents
- Should Voluntary Euthanasia Be Legalized?
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Would Legalizing Euthanasia Lead to Involuntary Killing?
- Chapter 3 Preface
- Legalizing Euthanasia Would Lead to Involuntary Killing
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would Threaten the Disabled
- Legalizing Voluntary Euthanasia Would not Threaten the Disabled
- Safegurads Cannot Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Safeguards Can Prevent Abuse of Legalized Euthanasia
- Periodical Bibliography
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Should Physicians Assist in Suicide?
- Chapter 4 Preface
- Assisted Suicide is an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Assisted Suicide is not an Ethically Acceptable Practice for Physicians
- Physicians Should be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should not be Legally Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Periodical Bibliography
- For Further Discussion
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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