1st Edition

The Politics of Physician Assisted Suicide

By Nina Clark Copyright 1997
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997. Nina Clark offers a pithy and valuable record of the political battles so far over voluntary, medically-hastened death. The purpose of the study is to examine the different ways in which the American political system has responded to the issue of patient autonomy; to explore its viability as an object of direct democracy; and to study the political activity and attitudes... Read more
Chapter I Introduction; Chapter II Early Policy Developments; Chapter III Court Responses; Chapter IV Policy-making By Default: The Initiative; Chapter V ::; chapter VI Prospects For Self-Deliverance;

Biography

Nina Clark