The suicide machine

Summary: From the Back Cover: Perhaps only Bill Clinton has greater name recognition. But of the millions who know Jack Kevorkian's name, only a handful have understood how Dr. Death works-until now. In a marathon reporting effort that spanned more than a half a year and hundreds of interviews, the staff of the Detroit Free Press took readers inside the lives and the issues. The result-this authoritative account of Kevorkian's crusade as related by those who witnessed it, death by death-is a sometimes poignant, sometimes deeply disturbing journey to the center of medicine's profound dilemma.

Record details

ISBN: 0937247731
ISBN: 9780937247730
Physical Description: print
195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Free Press, ©1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"Understanding Jack Kevorkian, the people who came to him and the issue of assisted suicide"--Cover.

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword -- From the publisher -- Introduction -- Part 1: 47 Lives -- Death express: Summer of '96 -- Beginning: June 1990-December 1992 -- Suicide streak: January 1993-May 1995 -- For some, it was a party: June 1995-May 1996 -- Kevorkian keeps on: August 1996-February 1997 -- Death is not final: the aftermath -- Part 2: Issues -- He breaks his own rules -- Failure of medicine -- Control at the end -- On the cheap -- Blunt and shy -- Part 3: People -- Biographies in brief of those who died -- Kevorkian goes public -- Singular doctor -- Fieger: beyond bluster -- Ally: Dr Reding -- Different Dr Death -- Part 4: Assisted Suicide Debate -- Black reluctance -- How patients choose -- New attitudes about dying -- Starving as a legal option -- Dr Death, 1915 -- Chronology -- Part 5: Editorial -- Better way awaits.