Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know

Mary A Wickline

doi:10.5195/jmla.2018.463

Abstract

Physician-Assisted Death is recommended for academic medical centers and hospital libraries. It can be useful to libraries or college courses as a textbook introduction that addresses ethics and pro and con arguments.

Highlights

The author declares in the preface that “the aim of this book is to provide readers with the resources...to take up intelligent and informed positions in this important debate” (p. xiii), and while offering a balanced presentation that includes difficult cases, the author seems to lean in favor of physician-assisted death
Neil Gorsuch published a legal case against assisted-suicide [4]
Atul Gawande ends his book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by addressing how complicated the issue is: At root, the debate is about what mistakes we fear most—the mistake of prolonging suffering or the mistake of shortening valued life...Certainly, suffering at the end of life is sometimes unavoidable and unbearable, and helping people end their misery may be necessary

Summary

Introduction

The author declares in the preface that “the aim of this book is to provide readers with the resources...to take up intelligent and informed positions in this important debate” (p. xiii), and while offering a balanced presentation that includes difficult cases, the author seems to lean in favor of physician-assisted death. The author declares in the preface that “the aim of this book is to provide readers with the resources...to take up intelligent and informed positions in this important debate” Xiii), and while offering a balanced presentation that includes difficult cases, the author seems to lean in favor of physician-assisted death.

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