Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective
Assessing the Dutch Experience
$279.26
- Hardcover
430 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2012
Summary
This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781107007567 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1107007569 |
| Author: | Stuart J. Youngner, Gerrit K. Kimsma |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 430 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2012 |
| Weight: | 720g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 157mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
“Offers good reading, sound analyses and well considered argumentations…..greatly recommended!” –Rob Jonqui
‘Offers good reading, sound analyses and well considered argumentations … greatly recommended!’ Rob Jonquière, The World Federation of Right to Die Societies
About The Author
Stuart J. Youngner
Stuart J. Youngner, MD, is the Susan E. Watson Professor and Chair of the Department of Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Trained as a psychiatrist, Dr Youngner is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in biomedical ethics. He has published extensively on topics including end-of-life issues, organ transplantation and the definition of death. Gerrit K. Kimsma, MD, MPh is a practising physician and philosopher and co-founder of the Department of Metamedicine at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is a nationally and internationally recognized scholar in end-of-life issues and serves on the Board of Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Medicine HealthCare and Philosophy.
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