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| Disabilities Ethical History International Medical Psychological Religious |
Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints Language and Reality at the End of Life Suicide and Euthanasia, Are They Ever Right? The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care The Slippery Slope of Assisted Suicide When Killing is Wrong: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Courts |
When Killing is Wrong: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Courts Dyck, Arthur J., When Killing Is Wrong: Physician Assisted Suicide and the Courts. Cleveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2001.Arthur J. Dyck, professor of population ethics in the School of Public Health and member of the faculty of Divinity at Harvard University, explores the division created in the courts over the debate about legalizing assisted suicide. Using opinions written in recent court cases, Professor Dyck analyzes the legal traditions and modes of moral reasoning used in the court decisions on this matter. The author identifies the ways in which physician-assisted suicide may be distinguished from comfort only care and reveals ways in which those who favor legalizing it have suppressed important aspects of the legal tradition on which their argument is based. He concludes by identifying ways in which our society's moral order would be threatened by physician-assisted suicide. His argument is based on a synthesis of legal traditions from both sides of the debate. Posted on June 26, 2004. |