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100 1 _aPappas, Demetra M.
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245 1 4 _aThe euthanasia / assisted-suicide debate /
_cDemetra M. Pappas.
260 _aSanta Barbara, Calif. :
_bGreenwood,
_cc2012.
300 _axxiii, 183 p. ;
_c25 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
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337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
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_avolume
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490 0 _aHistorical guides to controversial issues in America
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-177) and index.
505 0 _aAcknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Medical euthanasia and assisted suicide: a twentieth-century issue -- 2: 1930s and 1940s: from the King of England to the Holocaust -- 3: 1950s: the first Anglo-American prosecutions for medical euthanasia and the resulting academic debate -- 4: 1960s-1980s: decriminalizing suicide and non-voluntary euthanasia of those in persistent vegetative states -- 5: 1990s and Jack "Dr Death" Kevorkian: from physician-assisted suicide to medical euthanasia -- 6: 1990s: the non-Michigan parallel text of doctor prosecution and initial failed legislative efforts -- 7: Legalizing and implementing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in the 1990s and 2000s -- 8: 2000s: post-millennium case studies of state reactions to euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Concluding commentary -- Appendix: Table of cases, legislation, proposed legislation, and initiatives -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
650 0 _aEuthanasia
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aAssisted suicide
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
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650 0 _aRight to die
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
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653 _aSuicide;
_aassisted suicide;
_aprosecution;
_aphysicians
653 _aEuthanasia;
_aprosecution
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