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Conflicts of Conscience
Author(s) -
Campbell Courtney S.,
Hare Jan,
Matthews Pam
Publication year - 1995
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 - 10.2307/3562113
Subject(s) - conscience , assisted suicide , balance (ability) , medical prescription , right to die , identity (music) , psychology , nursing , medicine , law , criminology , political science , psychiatry , physics , acoustics , neuroscience
Proposals to legalize assisted suicide challenge hospice's identity and integrity. In the wake of Measure 16, Oregon hospice programs must develop practical policies to balance traditional commitments not to hasten death and not to abandon patients with dying patients' legal right to request lethal prescriptions.

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