About this title: Few issues are as volatile or misunderstood as physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. In this book, Doctors Foley and Hendin unravel why such principles as patient autonomy, compassion and rationality, which are often invoked by supporters of legalization, fail to address the actual situations of terminally ill patients. Incisive discussions ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780801867927ISBN:0801867924
Description: Near fine condition. Near fine condition (DJ) Octavo (8vo). xiv, 371 pages of text including an index. Blue hardcover cloth binding. Unclipped dustjacket with minimal shelfwear; protected in archival mylar. Terminal Care, Medical Psychology. read more
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 371pp., 1/8" tear to bottom front dj keeps this from as new; clean, white pages. read more
Description: New. In The Case against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, Dr. Kathleen Foley and Dr. Herbert Hendin uncover why pleas for patient autonomy and compassion, often used in favor of legalizing euthanasia, do not advance or protect the rights of terminally ill patients. Incisive essays by authorities in the fields of medicine, law, and bioethics draw on studies done in the Netherlands, Oregon, and Australia by the editors and contributors that show the dangers that legalization ... read more
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