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- Title
Does it make clinical sense to equate terminally ill patients who require life-sustaining interventi
- Authors
Alpers, Ann; Lo, Bernard
- Abstract
Reports that two United States courts have ruled that competent, terminally ill patients have a constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. Analysis of whether the courts' thinking is premised on a clinically plausible view of the care of terminally ill patients; Legal background; Equivalency of terminally ill patients and physicians' actions; Indirect effects of the rulings.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ASSISTED suicide laws; EUTHANASIA laws; TERMINAL care; RELIGION
- Publication
JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997, Vol 277, Issue 21, p1705
- ISSN
0098-7484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1001/jama.1997.03540450061036