TITLE

Should doctors be allowed to help terminally ill patients commit suicide?

AUTHOR(S)

Humphry, Derek; Callahan, Daniel

PUB. DATE

May 1993

SOURCE

Health (Time Inc. Health);May/Jun93, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p22

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Offers a pro and con discussion between the founder of the Hemlock Society and the director of the Hastings Center, a medical ethics think tank, on the subject of physician-assisted suicide. Reaction to the work of Jack `Dr. Death' Kevorkian; Quality of life decisions; Violating the traditions of medicine; Details.

ACCESSION #

9304130619

Tags: MEDICAL ethics

 

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