Title Dying right : the death with dignity movement / Daniel Hillyard and John Dombrink.

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New York : Routledge, 2001.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 304 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-293) and index.
Contents	Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A fate worse than death : challenging the legal treatment of dying -- Death with dignity : the early states, 1991-1992 -- Passage of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act -- A movement to repeal the Oregon Death with Dignity Act -- Compassion in dying : the assisted suicide test cases -- Building the safe harbor : The implementation of the ODDA -- Death with dignity in other states and other countries -- The good death : changing moral boundaries -- References -- Index.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Engaging the question of how to balance a patient's sense about the right way to die, a physician's role as a healer, and the state's interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral and medical complexities involved in this ongoing debate.
Local Note	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject	Right to die -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Euthanasia -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Right to Die -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	Suicide, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	Euthanasia -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	United States.
	LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
	Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00819132
	Euthanasia -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00916919
	Right to die -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01097897
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Dombrink, John, author.
Other Form:	Print version: Hillyard, Daniel, 1962- Dying right. New York : Routledge, 2001 0415927986 (DLC) 00062814 (OCoLC)44927058
ISBN	0585451737 (electronic book)
	9780585451732 (electronic book)
	0415927994 (paperback)
	9780415927994 (paperback)
	0203902556
	9780203902554
	0415927986
	9780415927987

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