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| Society's search for a legal and ethical basis of physician-assisted suicide | | Author(s) | Rebecca C Morgan, D Dixon Sutherland |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 9, no 4, 1997 |
| Pages | pp 51-70 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Medical care ; Doctors ; Social ethics ; Religion ; Law ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A review of the way physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is being addressed in the United States (US) reveals three models, each functioning out of distinctive concepts of autonomy: litigation, which utilises philosophical autonomy; legislation, which utilises political autonomy; and act of conscience, which utilises consumer autonomy. Each model raises a correspondingly distinct set of ethical questions and challenges centred around their point of reference - the judicial system, voters, or the doctor-patient relationship. However, efforts to resolve the challenge of PAS will falter if they do not go beyond these models of autonomy. Religious institutions offer a more constructive setting for facing the life and death decision making of PAS. The challenge for religion is to address PAS in solidarity with sufferers, physicians and the community, rather than retreating into iconoclastic dogmas. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980406411 A |
| Classmark | CY: CX: LV: LK: QT2: TQ: TR: VR: 7T |
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