The Politics of Physician Assisted Suicide (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America)

Clark, Nina

Routledge（2016/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 148 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138979031
• DDC分類 179.7

Full Description

First published in 1997. Nina Clark offers a pithy and valuable record of the political battles so far over voluntary, medically-hastened death. The purpose of the study is to examine the different ways in which the American political system has responded to the issue of patient autonomy; to explore its viability as an object of direct democracy; and to study the political activity and attitudes of individuals in relation to physician assisted suicide, particularly the elderly.

Contents

Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Early Policy Developments; Chapter III Court Responses; Chapter IV Policy-making By Default: The Initiative; Chapter V ::; chapter VI Prospects For Self-Deliverance;