Issues in Law & Medicine articles from September 1992

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from September 1992

'Rational' suicide and people with terminal conditions or disabilities.
September 22, 1992... As a faculty member at a university teaching hospital and a psychologist who specializes in treating mood disorders and suicidal behavior, I believe that the themes and arguments of Derek Humphry and the Hemlock Society oversimplify the...

Life-prolonging and life-terminating treatment of severely handicapped newborn babies: a discussion of the report of the Royal Dutch Society of Medicine on "Life-Terminating Actions with Incompetent Patients: Part I, Severely Handicapped Newborns."
September 22, 1992... In 1988 the KNMG (Royal Dutch Society of Medicine) published a discussion paper written by a special committee about life-terminating actions with incompetent patients entitled "Part 1: Severely Handicapped Newborns."(1) All those involved in...

The role of the clear and convincing standard of proof in right to die cases.
September 22, 1992... In Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health,(1) the United States Supreme Court recognized the fight of the state of Missouri to require that evidence of a person's desire to have life-sustaining medical treatment withdrawn be proven...

Cruzan and the demands of due process.
September 22, 1992... Nancy Cruzan, thirty years old, had been in a persistent vegetative state for nearly six years when the Supreme Court of Missouri decided that she should remain in that condition indefinitely.(1) The court's opinion was remarkable not only for...

Essay one: legal explanation. (Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life: Its Extent and Form.) (first published in 1920 by Verlag von Felix Meiner in Leipzig, Germany)
September 22, 1992... At the end of my life, I presume to restate my opinion on a question which has occupied my thinking for many years, but which most people timidly avoid because it is seen as delicate and hard to answer. Indeed it could not unjustly be said that...

Essay two: medical explanation. ('Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life: Its Extent and Form,' first published in 1920 by Verlag von Felix Meiner in Leipzig, Germany)
September 22, 1992... The points raised in the preceding legal analysis do not all require the same degree of medical elaboration. The legal status of suicide and the legal circumstances regarding the killing of consenting persons are issues which will not concern...

Personal Autonomy and Substituted Judgment: Legal Issues in Medical Decisions for Incompetent Patients.
September 22, 1992... In this book the Honorable Edward D. Robertson, Jr., Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri and author of the opinion in Cruzan v. Harmon (Mo. 1988), traces the history of the substituted judgment concept and the constitutional doctrine of...

Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns.
September 22, 1992... The Baby Doe incident of 1982 spurred the federal government to create a public policy making failure to treat severely disabled newborns a form of child neglect. This book focuses on public policy aspects of withholding treatment from...

The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code: Human Rights in Human Experimentation.
September 22, 1992... Since its enunciation, the Nuremberg Code has been viewed as one of the cornerstones of modern bioethical thought. The sources and ramifications of this important document are thoroughly discussed in this book by a distinguished roster of...

Elder Mistreatment: Deciding Who Is at Risk.
September 22, 1992... This book is written especially for human services professionals who are not necessarily adult protective services specialists but who provide direct, ongoing services to older adults. Its purpose is to offer guidelines for detecting eider...

Life and Death Decision Making.
September 22, 1992... This book is an attempt to integrate theory and practice. The approach is that of pluralistic casuistry. It is pluralistic in that it supposes that there are many different moral appeals that are irreducible to each other, often in conflict...