Chapter 11:Deliberate Termination of Life and Physician Assisted Suicide: Aid in Dying

Section 4. Readings

ARTICLES:

Author:  Lonnie R. Bristow   Title:  Physician-Assisted Suicide

Publication Information:  Statement by Lonnie R. Bristow, President of the American Medical Association, before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Congressional Record,

April 29, 1996

James Rachels Article on Active and Passive Euthanasia

Summary of James Rachels: Active and Passive Euthanasia

Dan W. Brock: Voluntary Active Euthanasia; a Utilitarian justification

J. Gay-Williams: The Wrongfulness of Euthanasia

Daniel Callahan: When Self Determination Runs Amok

 

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