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dc.contributor.authorCandilis, Philip J.
dc.contributor.authorAppelbaum, Kenneth L.
dc.date2022-08-11T08:10:24.000
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-23T17:07:16Z
dc.date.available2022-08-23T17:07:16Z
dc.date.issued1997-12-01
dc.date.submitted2011-03-01
dc.identifier.citationJ Am Acad Psychiatry Law. 1997;25(4):595-606.
dc.identifier.issn1093-6793 (Linking)
dc.identifier.pmid9460047
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/45298
dc.description.abstractIn 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.isoen_US
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dc.relation.urlhttp://www.jaapl.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/4/595
dc.subjectAdvisory Committees
dc.subjectGovernment Regulation
dc.subjectHumans
dc.subjectIntention
dc.subjectNew York
dc.subjectPersons
dc.subjectProfessional Autonomy
dc.subjectResuscitation Orders
dc.subjectRight to Die
dc.subjectSuicide, Assisted
dc.subject*Supreme Court Decisions
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.subjectValue of Life
dc.subjectVulnerable Populations
dc.subjectWashington
dc.subjectWithholding Treatment
dc.subjectLaw
dc.subjectMental and Social Health
dc.subjectPsychiatry
dc.titlePhysician-assisted suicide and the Supreme Court: the Washington and Vacco verdicts
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.source.journaltitleThe journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law
dc.source.volume25
dc.source.issue4
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/psych_cmhsr/397
dc.identifier.contextkey1833492
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.submissionpathpsych_cmhsr/397
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Psychiatry
dc.source.pages595-606


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