Physician-Assisted Death
Scanning the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop
by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Joe Alper, Caroline M. Cilio, Catharyn T. Liverman, Rebecca A. English
Description
The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients. While public opinion is divided and public policy debates include moral, ethical, and policy considerations, a demand for physician-assisted death persists among some patients, and the inconsistent legal terrain leaves a number of questions and challenges for health care providers to navigate when presented with patients considering or requesting physician-assisted death.
To discuss what is known and not known empirically about the practice of physician-assisted death, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC, on February 12â€"13, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
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- Publisher National Academies Press
- Publication Date March 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780309476959 / 030947695X
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 60 USD
- Pages170
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions9 X 6 inches
- Reference Code10.17226/25131
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