Physician-Assisted Dying

The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice
Ed. by Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The indispensable starting place for anyone wishing to become better informed about the present arguments over physician-assisted dying." -- Humanist in Canada "A very persuasive brief, combining empirical data, logical argumentation, and appeals to compassion." -- JAMA

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780801880704
• ISBN-10: 080188070X
• Artikelnr.: 13643452

Autorenporträt

Timothy E. Quill, M.D., is a professor of medicine, psychiatry, and medical humanities at the University of Rochester and author of A Midwife through the Dying Process, also available from Johns Hopkins. Margaret P. Battin, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and an adjunct professor of medical ethics at the University of Utah. She is the author of The Least Worst Death.