Law at the End of Life The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide

Name: Law at the End of Life The Supreme Court and Assisted Suicide
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ISBN: 9780472111572

ISBN-10: 0472111574

ISBN-13: 9780472111572

Edition: 2000

Authors: Carl E. Schneider

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We live in a world in which courts crucially shape public policy through constitutional adjudication. This is a book written for that world. It brings together a group of distinguished scholars from many disciplines to examine the Supreme Court's recent decision that statutes prohibiting doctors from helping their patients commit suicide may be constitutional. It offers a guide to that decision and to the larger issues it raises for citizens and scholars alike. It asks everyone's first question: What does the decision mean for today and tomorrow? It asks the lawyer's question: Is the Supreme Court's reasoning clear and convincing? It asks the doctor's question: How will the decision affect…

Book details

List price: $90.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 9/30/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 376
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction: Political Questions, Judicial Questions, and the Problem of Washington v. Glucksberg




The Road to Glucksberg




Ambivalent Unanimity: An Analysis of the Supreme Court's Holding




On the Meaning and Impact of the Physician-Assisted Suicide Cases




The Supreme Court and End-of-Life Care: Principled Distinctions or Slippery Slope?




Physician-Assisted Suicide in the Courts: Moral Equivalence, Double Effect, and Clinical Practice




A Part of the Main? The Physician-Assisted Suicide Cases and Comparative Law Methodology in the United States Supreme Court




Making Biomedical Policy through Constitutional Adjudication: The Example of Physician-Assisted Suicide




Eugenic Euthanasia in Early Twentieth-Century America and Medically Assisted Suicide Today: Differences and Similarities




Assisted Suicide and the Challenge of Individually Determined Collective Rationality




From Story to Law: Euthanasia and Authenticity




Concluding Thoughts: Bioethics in the Language of the Law




Compassion in Dying v. Washington



Washington v. Glucksberg


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