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Physician‐Assisted Suicide: Promoting Autonomy—Or Medicalizing Suicide?
Author(s) -
Salem Tania
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.2307/3528193
Subject(s) - autonomy , suicide prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , injury prevention , occupational safety and health , psychology , medicine , medical emergency , political science , law , pathology
Assisted suicide, many argue, honors self‐determination in returning control of their dying to patients themselves. But physician assistance and measures proposed to safeguard patients from coercion in fact return ultimate authority over this “private and deeply personal” decision to medicine and society.