Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-177) and index.
Contents:
Medical euthanasia and assisted suicide: a twentieth-century issue -- The 1930s and 1940s: from the King of England to the Holocaust -- The 1950s: the first Anglo-American prosecutions for medical euthanasia and the resulting academic debate -- The 1960s-1980s: decriminalizing suicide and non-voluntary euthanasia of those in persistent vegetative states -- The 1990s and Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian: from physician-assisted suicide to medical euthanasia --The 1990s: the non-Michigan parallel text of doctor prosecution and initial failed legislative efforts -- Legalizing and implementing physician-assisted suicide in Oregon in the 1990s and 2000s -- The 2000s: post-millennium case studies of state reactions to euthanasia and assisted suicide.
Series:
Historical guides to controversial issues in America
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