Issues in Law & Medicine articles from September 1994

Issues in Law & Medicine archives from September 1994

Seduced by death: doctors, patients, and the Dutch cure. (Assen, Netherlands)
September 22, 1994... In the Dutch city of Assen in the spring of 1993, a court of three judges acquitted a psychiatrist who had assisted in the suicide of his patient, a physically healthy fifty year old woman who had lost her two sons and who had been recently...

The right to die.
September 22, 1994... The recent controversy over Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his role in assisting twenty patients to end their lives has once again brought to the fore the issue of the right to die. Our society continues to struggle with the question of how and under...

The scope of the Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest: does the Constitution encompass a right to define oneself out of existence? An exchange of views with John A. Powell, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union.
September 22, 1994... [W]e must start from scratch and think every problem through from its very premises to its last implications."(1) Introduction: The Need to "Unpack" the Debate over Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide There are few areas in the law...