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  Title

  When death is sought : assisted suicide and euthanasia in the medical context

  Author

  New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.  

  Publisher:

  New York State Task Force on Life and the Law,

  Pub date:

  [1994]

  Pages:

  xvii, 217 p. :

  ISBN:

  1881268012

  Item info:

  3 copies available at New York State Library.
  

  • Holdings			Change Display
    New York State Library
    	Copy	Material	Location
    LIF 500-4 WHEDI 94-27873	1	BOOK	D-NYS-DOC (nocirc)
    	2	BOOK	D-NYS-DOC
    	3	BOOK	D-NYS-DOC

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  When death is sought : assisted suicide and euthanasia in the medical context
  New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.
  

  Control number:

  OCM30740517 082194

  ISBN:

  1881268012

  Gov. Doc. Call #:

  LIF,500-4,WHEDI,94-27873

  Corporate author:

  New York State Task Force on Life and the Law.

  Title:

  When death is sought : assisted suicide and euthanasia in the medical context.

  Imprint:

  New York, N.Y. : New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, [1994]

  Physical description:

  xvii, 217 p. : ill, forms ; 22 cm.

  Note:

  "May 1994."

  Note:

  Crafting public policy on assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The question of legal change -- Response to proposed guidelines to legalize assisted suicide -- Distinguishing decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment -- Developing professional medical standards -- Caring for severely ill patients -- Decisions about life-sustaining treatment -- Improving palliative care -- Diagnosing and treating depression -- Responding when a patient requests assisted suicide or euthanasia.

  Note:

  Includes bibliographical references.

  Contents:

  The epidemiology of suicide -- Suicide in the general population -- Risk factors for suicide -- Suicide and special patient populations -- Patients with cancer -- Patients with AIDS -- The elderly -- Clinical responses to pain and suffering -- Assessing pain and other symptoms -- Managing pain -- Treating other symptoms of illness -- Current clinical practice -- Decisions at life's end: existing law -- The right to decide about treatment -- Suicide and the law -- Assisted suicide -- Euthanasia -- Professional misconduct proceedings -- The Constitutional issues -- The ethical debate -- An historical perspective -- Distinguishing assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The appeal to autonomy -- Benefiting the patient -- Societal consequences -- The role and responsibilities of physicians -- Killing and allowing to die.

  Local note:

  Checklist: July, 1994.

  Local note:

  The May 1997 supplement (18 p.) is not available (3/99).

  Held by:

  NYSL

  Subject:

  Assisted suicide--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Euthanasia--New York (State)

  Subject:

  Right to die--New York (State)

  Call number:

  LIF,500-4,WHEDI,94-27873

  Location/Holdings:

  D