Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate [Hardcover]

Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate.Margaret P. Battin is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. She is the author of numerous books, including, The Least Worst Death (1994). Rosamond Rhodes is Director of Bioethics Education and Associate Professor of Medical Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY. Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. ...this book offers one of the most comprehensive tools to date for understanding the physician-assisted suicide debate. -- Janet Heald Forliani, Religious Studies Review
This excellent collection succeeds in expanding the debate about legalizing physician-assisted suicide well beyond its current narrow framework. -- New England Journal of Medicine
From protecting the weak to the question of saving health-care money through PAS, the book covers many often contentious subjects. -- Publishers Weekly
Physician Assisted Suicide is by far the most comprehensive collection of materials yet...Whether you know little about this issue, or thought that you knew everything there is to know on it, you are bound to learn more from reading this volume. -- Peter Singer, author of Rethinking Life and Death
In a field where a debate can easily degl-