The quality of mercy / Marcia Angell
Nonabandonment: a central obligation for physicians / Timothy E. Quill and Christine K. Cassel
The role of autonomy in choosing physician aid-in-dying / Thomas Preston, Martin Gunderson, and David J. Mayo
Disability and physician-assisted dying / Andrew I. Batavia
When suffering patients seek death / Eric J. Cassell
Why do people seek physician-assisted death? / Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks
Doctor/patient communication about physician-assisted suicide / Anthony L. Back
When hastened death is neither killing nor letting-die / Tom L. Beauchamp
Should physician-assisted suicide be added to the options of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking and terminal sedation at the end of life? / Dan W. Brock
Death: a friend to be welcomed, not an enemy to be defeated / John Shelby Spong
The Oregon experience / Linda Ganzini
The distortion of cases in oregon / Peter Goodwin
A model that integrates assisted dying with excellent end-of-life care / Barbara Coombs-Lee
Thirty years of experience with euthanasia in the Netherlands: focusing on the patient as a person / Johannes J.M. van Delden, Jaap J.F. Visser, and Els Borst-Eilers
The death of my father / Herman H. van der Kloot Meijburg
Assisted death in the Netherlands: physicians at the bedside when help is requested / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen
Political strategy and legal change / Eli D. Stutsman
Legal advocacy to improve care and expand options at the end of life / Kathryn L. Tucker
Physician-assisted suicide: shifting the focus from means to ends / Alan Meisel
Choice in dying: a political and constitutional context / Sylvia A. Law
Hastening death: the seven deadly sins of the status quo / Charles H. Baron
Conclusion: excellent palliative care as the standard, and physician-assisted dying as a last resort / Timothy E. Quill and Margaret P. Battin.
Physician-assisted dying : the case for palliative care and patient choice. ISBN 080188070X. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.