Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?

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Acknowledgements. The Contemporary Debate over Physician-Assisted Suicide L.M. Kopelman, K.A. De Ville. On the Permissibility of Physician-Assisted Suicide. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Another Battle in the Culture Wars H.T. Engelhardt, Jr. Refusals/Withdrawals and Physician-Assisted Suicide R.G. Frey. Physician-Assisted Suicide - The Worry About Abuse D.W. Brock. Challenging the Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide. Is There a Slippery Slope From Suicide, to Assisted Suicide, to Consensual Euthanasia? R.L. Holmes. Does Physician-Assisted Suicide Promote Liberty and Compassion? L.M. Kopelman. Job Openings for Moral Philosophers in Oregon: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Culture of Romantic Rescue L. Zoloth. Physician-Assisted Suicide: Views from the Clinic. Physician-Assisted Suicide - A Clinician's Perspective G.J. Povar. Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Culture of Medicine and the Undertreatment of Pain D.B. Resnik. Managed Health Care at the End of Life S.H. Miles. Visions of the Future for Physician-Assisted Suicide. Physician-Assisted Suicide and the States: Short, Medium, and Long Term K.A. De Ville. Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural Change in the Future M.P. Battin. A Proposal for Legalizing Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in South Africa W.A. Landman. Notes on Contributors. Index.