Document Detail


Physician-assisted suicide. Legal rulings skirt around ethics of aid-in-dying.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  10134839     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Kevorkian's acquittal of violating Michigan's assisted-suicide ban and a federal court's ruling that Washington state's ban on assisted suicide is unconstitutional say more about the inability of the judicial process to provide clear guidance through ethical quagmires than they do about ethical issues at hand, as the following articles explain.
Authors:
-
Related Documents :
12307099 - Supreme court denies reargument on abortion.
16777109 - Legal and ethical issues in telemedicine and robotics.
12289259 - Judgment, 4 may 1988.
15296239 - Inference with legal evidence: common sense is necessary, but not sufficient.
12108569 - Hendricks v. people: forcing the insanity defense on an unwilling defendant.
10739969 - Clinical neuropsychology in the criminal forensic setting.
21483419 - The ethics of evaluating obesity intervention studies on children.
20127549 - American society of hematology--51st annual meeting & exposition. part 1.
21465839 - Visualizing "race" in the eighteenth century.
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Hospital ethics / American Hospital Association     Volume:  10     ISSN:  8756-8519     ISO Abbreviation:  Hosp Ethics     Publication Date:    1994 Jul-Aug
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1994-08-17     Completed Date:  1994-08-17     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8602397     Medline TA:  Hosp Ethics     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  1-6     Citation Subset:  H    
Export Citation:
APA/MLA Format     Download EndNote     Download BibTex
MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Ethics, Medical*
Euthanasia / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Michigan
New York
Physician's Role
Suicide, Assisted / legislation & jurisprudence*
United States
Washington

From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine


Previous Document:  A guide to evaluating managed care companies.
Next Document:  Care of the dying. Studies look for humane ways of withdrawing treatment.