Euthanasia

The Empirical Slippery Slope from Voluntary to Non-Voluntary Euthanasia

Ebscohost Link

Lewis, Penney. "The Empirical Slippery Slope from Voluntary to Non-Voluntary Euthanasia." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2007): 197-210. Retrieved EBSCOhost Database.

From the Abstract: This article examines the evidence for the empirical argument that there is a slippery slope between the legalization of voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia. The main source of evidence in relation to this argument comes from the Netherlands. The argument is only effective against legalization if it is legalization which causes the slippery slope. Moreover, it is only effective if it is used comparatively-to show that the slope is more slippery in jurisdictions which have legalized voluntary euthanasia than it is in jurisdictions which have not done so. Both of these elements are examined comparatively.

Brian Thompson

Hemlock Society Website (pro)

http://www.compassionandchoices.org/educationcenter/documents.php

Document database from compassionandchoices.com (front for Hemlock Society). News, anectotes, journal articles, essays.

Brian Thompson

Yes on I-1000 (pro)

http://www.yeson1000.org/ http://www.yeson1000.org/FactSheet.pdf

Pro website regarding upcoming initiative to legalize PAS in Washington

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No on I-1000 (Against)

http://noassistedsuicide.com/

Anti website regarding upcoming initiative to legalize PAS in Washington

Brian Thompson

Age Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty to Die?

• Author(s): Margaret P. Battin
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Jan., 1987), pp. 317-340
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381351

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Hastings Center

Check them out in the JSTOR database, very balanced, easy to read articles

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Voluntary Euthanasia and the Inalienable Right to Life

• Author(s): Joel Feinberg
• Source: Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 7, No. 2, (Winter, 1978), pp. 93-123
• Published by: Formerly published by Princeton University Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2264987

Brian Thompson

Doing Away with Double Effect

• Author(s): Alison McIntyre
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 111, No. 2 (Jan., 2001), pp. 219-255
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2675687

discusses difference between active PAS and double-effect PAS, if there is such a distinction

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A Critique of Three Objections to Physician-Assisted Suicide

• Author(s): Dan W. Brock
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Apr., 1999), pp. 519-547
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989451

Brian Thompson

On Killing and morality of acts

• Author(s): Thomas Aquinas
• Source: Summa Theologica II-II, Q. 64, art. 7
• Source: Summa Theologica I-II, Q. 18 (esp art. 3)

Discusses double effect

Brian Thompson

Toward Understanding the Principle of Double Effect

• Author(s): Joseph M. Boyle, Jr.
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 90, No. 4 (Jul., 1980), pp. 527-538
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2380452

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Physician-Assisted Suicide, the Doctrine of Double Effect, and the Ground of Value

• Author(s): F. M. Kamm
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Apr., 1999), pp. 586-605
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989454

Brian Thompson

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Two Moral Arguments

• Author(s): Judith Jarvis Thomson
• Source: Ethics, Vol. 109, No. 3 (Apr., 1999), pp. 497-518
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2989450

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Euthanasia & Islamic Law

1- http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/patient/chap5.htm this is a useful website and the When Death is Sought Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context & Task Force on Life and the low

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2- http://www.ummah.net/what-is-islam/modern/euth.htm this is another great website which is about the Euthanasia based on Islam.

Saleh

THE RIGHT TO DIE IS FUNDAMENTAL

Indexing (document details)
Author(s): GREG BARNS Guest columnist
Document types: COLUMN;
Section: Editorial
Publication title: Seattle Post - Intelligencer. Seattle, Wash.: Apr 6, 2005. pg. B.7
Source type: Newspaper
ISSN: 0745970X
ProQuest document ID: 818276521
Text Word Count 721
Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=818276521&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=10553&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Dahyung

Nazi Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill at Hadamar

Indexing (document details)
Subjects: Mental disorders, Archives & records, Hospitals, Nazi era, Euthanasia
MeSH subjects: Concentration Camps -- history, Eugenics -- history, Euthanasia -- history, Germany, History, 20th
Century, Holocaust -- history, Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history, Humans, Mental Disorders -- mortality, National Socialism -- history, World War II
Locations: Germany-pre-1945
Author(s): Rael D Strous
Author Affiliation: RAEL D. STROUS, M.D.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Strous, Beer Yaakov Mental Health Center, P.O. Box 1, Beer Yaakov 70350, Israel; raels@post.tau.ac.il (e-mail).
Document types: Feature, Historical Article
Document features: References, Photographs
Section: Images in Psychiatry
Publication title: The American Journal of Psychiatry. Washington: Jan 2006. Vol. 163, Iss. 1; pg. 27, 1 pgs
Source type: Periodical
ISSN: 0002953X
ProQuest document ID: 962559371
Text Word Count 439
Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=962559371&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=10553&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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History of the right to die

Indexing (document details)
Subjects: Right to die, Books, Euthanasia, Medical ethics, Right to die, Medicine, History
Classification Codes 8320 Health care industry, 9190 United States, 9172
Locations: United States, US
People: Kevorkian, Jack, Dowbiggin, Ian
Author(s): A Mark Clarfield
Document types: Book Review-Favorable
Publication title: Medical Post. Toronto: Mar 18, 2003. Vol. 39, Iss. 11; pg. 38
Source type: Periodical
ISSN: 00257435
ProQuest document ID: 318984781
Text Word Count 953
Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=318984781&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=10553&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States

Indexing (document details)
Subjects: Euthanasia, Scholarships & fellowships, Public health, Patients
Author(s): Alfonso Morales
Author Affiliation: Reviewed by Alfonso Morales, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Document types: Book Review-Favorable
Section: Book Reviews
Publication title: Law & Society Review. Amherst: Jun 2007. Vol. 41, Iss. 2; pg. 498, 3 pgs
Source type: Periodical
ISSN: 00239216
ProQuest document ID: 1291621641
Text Word Count 826
Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1291621641&sid=2&Fmt=3&clientId=10553&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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