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The right to die debate : a documentary history

Author: Marjorie B Zucker
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Series: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marjorie B Zucker
ISBN: 0313305226 9780313305221
OCLC Number: 40698454
Description: xxx, 303 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Death and how we face it -- Some literature about death -- Definitions of death -- Responses to the reality of death -- Medical advances, care of the dying, and the euthanasia movement before 1952 -- Death in the nineteenth century -- Mortality, 1900-1950 -- The early euthanasia movement -- The euthanasia movement in Great Britain and the United States -- Attempts to legalize euthanasia in the United States -- Opposition to the euthanasia movement -- Mercy killings -- Changes in medical care and the way we die: the euthanasia movement, 1953-1965 -- Advance directives: their legalization and implementation -- The original living will -- Medical power of attorney: health care agent appointed by the patient -- Federal law relating to advance directives -- The role of the courts in end-of-life decision making -- Suicide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia -- Attempts to legalize physician-assisted suicide -- Palliative care.
Series Title: Primary documents in American history and contemporary issues
Responsibility: edited by Marjorie B. Zucker.

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