Physician Assisted Suicide Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Conceptual Issues	9
1	Meanings of Death	11
2	Physician-Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, and Intending Death	28
3	Physician-Assisted Suicide: Safe, Legal, Rare?	63
Pt. 2	Considering Those at Risk	73
4	Assisted Suicide: Are the Elderly a Special Case?	75
5	Lessons for Physician-Assisted Suicide From the African-American Experience	91
6	Why Suicide Is Like Contraception: A Women-Centered View	113
7	Disability and Life-Ending Decisions	123
8	Protecting the Innocents From Physician-Assisted Suicide: Disability Discrimination and the Duty to Protect Otherwise Vulnerable Groups	133
9	Assisted Suicide, Terminal Illness, Severe Disability, and the Double Standard	149
Pt. 3	Considering the Practice of Medicine	163
10	Physicians, Assisted Suicide, and the Right to Live or Die	165
11	Physician, Stay Thy Hand!	177
12	An Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Conceptual and Moral Analysis	182
13	Not in the House: Arguments for a Policy of Excluding Physician-Assisted Suicide from the Practice of Hospital Medicine	203
Pt. 4	Considering the Impact of Legalization	223
14	Physician-Assisted Suicide: To Decriminalize or to Legalize, That Is the Question	225
15	From Intention to Consent: Learning from Experience with Euthanasia	252
16	The Weakness of the Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Suicide	267
17	Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Tragic View	279
18	The Supreme Court and Terminal Sedation: An Ethically Inferior Alternative to Physician-Assisted Suicide	301
19	Would Physician-Assisted Suicide Save the Healthcare System Money? (Or, Is Jack Kevarkian Doing All of Us a Favor?)	312
Pt. 5	Considering Religious Perspectives	323
20	A Catholic Perspective on Physician-Assisted Suicide	324
21	Christian Perspectives on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Anglican Tradition	334
22	A Protestant Perspective on Ending Life: Faithfulness in the Face of Death	347
23	Jewish Deliberations on Suicide: Exceptions, Toleration, and Assistance	362
Pt. 6	Appendices	373
A	Washington et al. v. Glucksberg et al.: Text of the Supreme Court Decision Delivered by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Concurring Opinions by Justices O'Connor, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	377
B	Vacco et al. v. Quill et al.: Text of the Supreme Court Decision Delivered by Chief Justice Rehnquist. Concurring Opinions by Justices O'Connor, Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer	423
C	The Philosophers' Brief: Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson	431
D	The Oregon Death With Dignity Act: Ballot Measure No. 16	443
	Contributors	449
	Index	455