Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Thomasma, David C. (Editor), Kimbrough-Kushner, Thomasine. (Editor), Kimsma, Gerrit K. (Editor), Ciesielski-Carlucci, Chris. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1998.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Political science.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.; Public Health.; Political Science.
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claim was that he had faced a conflict of duties pitting his legal duty not to kill against his duty as a physician to relieve his patientỚ"s unbearable suffering. He was acquitted on the important grounds of conflict of duty. These grounds are based on a concept in Dutch law called "for...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Prologue
• The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
• The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
• Toward a Dutch Compromise: Perspectives from Government, Law, Medicine, and Academia
• Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview
• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law
• Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions
• The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?
• Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training
• Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar
• Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands
• Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure
• Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia
• Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine
• A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
• The Range of Objections to Euthanasia
• Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character
• Living with Euthanasia: Physicians and Families Speak for Themselves
• Annie Asked, ỚSAre You Going to Help Me?Ớ<U+00fd>
• ỚSIn Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in LifeỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSThe Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill HimỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSKilling is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst AlternativeỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSA TragedyỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSThe Euthanasia Mountain Gets Higher and HigherỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSI Will Not Leave You AloneỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSThe Worst Moments of My LifeỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSEuthanasia is Not So Much About Shortening Life, But More Directly About Shortening SufferingỚ<U+00fd>
• Euthanasia in the Nursing Home: ỚSWe Had a Problem Not to Let the Other Patients Know What Was HappeningỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSJust What Are We Doing?Ớ<U+00fd>
• ỚSI was the First Physician in the Netherlands Prosecuted for Performing Euthanasia on a Patient Who was not a Relative.Ớ<U+00fd>
• Arlene Judith Klotzko and Dr. Boudewijn Chabot Discuss Assisted Suicide in the Absence of Somatic Illness
• What Kind of Life? What Kind of Death? An Interview with Dr. Henk Prins
• ỚSWhat is There to Be Frightened About? After All, ItỚ"s Not Like I Am Going to the Dentist!Ớ<U+00fd>
• The Story of Laurens
• ỚSI Walked Out Into The Kitchen; I Could Not Endure ItỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSHe Was Dead Before He Even Passed AwayỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSWe Will Have to Make of Life What We CanỚ<U+00fd>
• A Double Life
• ỚSYou Will Do Well With The ChildrenỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSAs Soon As Possible PleaseỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSWhat Life Was Left to Live?Ớ<U+00fd>
• ỚSI DonỚ"t Want To Be Put Away Like A DogỚ<U+00fd>
• ỚSWe Are Living in a House of Death; Everyone Who Enters Here Will DieỚ<U+00fd>
• Euthanasia: Promises and Perils
• The Hard Unanswered Questions: Issues That Continue to Divide the Dutch and Fuel Debate
• New Directions.