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The case against assisted suicide : for the right to end-of-life care / edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin.

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General Note:	Originally published in 2002.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-364) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	"I will give no deadly drug": why doctors must not kill / Leon R. Kass -- Compassion is not enough / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Reason, self-determination, and physician-assisted suicide / Daniel Callahan -- The rise and fall of the "right" to assisted suicide / Yale Kamisar -- The Dutch experience / Herbert Hendin -- Palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands: observations of a Dutch physician / Zbigniew Zylicz -- The Oregon experiment / Kathleen Foley ; Herbert Hendin -- Oregon's culture of silence / N. Gregory Hamilton -- Deadly days in Darwin / David W. Kissane -- Not dead yet / Diane Coleman -- Vulnerable people: practical rejoinders to claims in favor of assisted suicide / Felicia Cohn ; Joanne Lynn -- Depression and the will to live in the psychological landscape of terminally ill patients / Harvey M. Chochinov ; Leonard Schwartz -- A hospice perspective / Cicely Saunders -- Compassionate care, not assisted suicide / Kathleen Foley.