Physician-assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: the Washington and Vacco verdicts
dc.contributor.author | Candilis, Philip J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Appelbaum, Kenneth L. | |
dc.date | 2022-08-11T08:10:24.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-23T17:07:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-08-23T17:07:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997-12-01 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2011-03-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | J Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1997;25(4):595-606. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1093-6793 (Linking) | |
dc.identifier.pmid | 9460047 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45298 | |
dc.description.abstract | In June 1997, the Supreme Court decided that statutes proscribing physicians from providing lethal medication for use by competent, terminally ill patients do not violate the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution. The Court returned the question of physician-assisted suicide to the states, but did not foreclose future review of state laws that may be too restrictive of care at the end of life. The conceptual distinctions between assisted suicide, refusal of life-sustaining treatment, and administration of pain medication to terminally ill patients were endorsed as important guideposts for future analyses. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.relation | <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=9460047&dopt=Abstract">Link to Article in PubMed</a> | |
dc.relation.url | http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/4/595 | |
dc.subject | Advisory Committees | |
dc.subject | Government Regulation | |
dc.subject | Humans | |
dc.subject | Intention | |
dc.subject | New York | |
dc.subject | Persons | |
dc.subject | Professional Autonomy | |
dc.subject | Resuscitation Orders | |
dc.subject | Right to Die | |
dc.subject | Suicide, Assisted | |
dc.subject | *Supreme Court Decisions | |
dc.subject | United States | |
dc.subject | Value of Life | |
dc.subject | Vulnerable Populations | |
dc.subject | Washington | |
dc.subject | Withholding Treatment | |
dc.subject | Law | |
dc.subject | Mental and Social Health | |
dc.subject | Psychiatry | |
dc.title | Physician-assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: the Washington and Vacco verdicts | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.source.journaltitle | The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law | |
dc.source.volume | 25 | |
dc.source.issue | 4 | |
dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/397 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 1833492 | |
html.description.abstract | <p>In June 1997, the Supreme Court decided that statutes proscribing physicians from providing lethal medication for use by competent, terminally ill patients do not violate the Due Process or Equal Protection Clauses of the Constitution. The Court returned the question of physician-assisted suicide to the states, but did not foreclose future review of state laws that may be too restrictive of care at the end of life. The conceptual distinctions between assisted suicide, refusal of life-sustaining treatment, and administration of pain medication to terminally ill patients were endorsed as important guideposts for future analyses.</p> | |
dc.identifier.submissionpath | psych_cmhsr/397 | |
dc.contributor.department | Department of Psychiatry | |
dc.source.pages | 595-606 |