How to deal with requests for assisted suicide: some experiences and practical guidelines from the Netherlands [0.03%]
荷兰安乐死请求应对初探：几点经验和实施建议
A J F M Kerkhof
A J F M Kerkhof
In the Netherlands, physician-assisted suicide may be justifiable for patients with physical illness as well as for patients with unbearable mental suffering. Explicit requests for physician-assisted suicide are frequently made, but in psyc...
Family matters: a social system perspective on physician-assisted suicide and the older adult [0.03%]
家庭事务——关于医生协助自杀的老年人的社会系统视角
D A King,S Y H Kim,Y Conwell
D A King
Physician-assisted suicide is one of the most controversial issues facing health care providers today, provoking contentious debate that spans medical, psychological, legal, religious, and moral realms. Despite the wealth of theories and op...
J L Werth,T Farrenkopf,G A H Benjamin
J L Werth
In this short article, the authors respond to the critiques of the four commentators on the original "Guidelines" article. They highlight areas of agreement and disagreement with the other authors in an effort to move the discussion forward...
Physicians' decisions about patient capacity: the Trojan horse of physician-assisted suicide [0.03%]
医师关于病人行为能力的决定：安乐死的暗箱操作
S R Martyn,H J Bourguignon
S R Martyn
Even if all physicians follow elaborate guidelines in determining patient capacity, their judgments will remain subjective and heavily influenced by their own personal values. Capacity guidelines are the Trojan horse of physician-assisted s...
Competency and common law: why and how decision-making capacity criteria should be drawn from the capacity-determination process [0.03%]
能力与普通法——决策能力标准为何以及如何应当从决定能力确定过程中得出
C H Baron
C H Baron
Determining competence to request physician-assisted suicide should be no more difficult than determining competence to refuse life-prolonging treatment. In both cases, criteria and procedures should be developed out of the process of actua...
Requests for physician-assisted death: guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment [0.03%]
关于寻求医生协助死亡的求医问药：评估心理行为能力及判断力受损的指导方针
J L Werth,G A H Benjamin,T Farrenkopf
J L Werth
This article fills a need in the theoretical and clinical literature by presenting a set of guidelines for assessing mental capacity and impaired judgment when a person makes a request to have physician-assisted death. Because Oregon is the...
The first year of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act: responses to the commentators [0.03%]
俄勒冈州尊严死亡法案实施第一年：回应评论家
B Coombs Lee,J L Werth
B Coombs Lee
This reaction article begins by differentiating the authors' data from the official Oregon Health Division Report on the Death with Dignity Act and then provides comments in response to each of the authors/teams who analyzed the original ar...
M White,D Callahan
M White
The results of Oregon's first year with physician-assisted suicide raise two questions. First, how will it be possible to evaluate what is actually going on in Oregon if there is no public access to the records and if physicians are shielde...
G A H Benjamin
G A H Benjamin
Oregon's Death with Dignity Act has changed the nature of the discussion and debate surrounding hastened death. After considering how the Act has been implemented, the clinical, policy, and research implications of physician-assisted suicid...
Observations on the first year of Oregon's Death with Dignity Act [0.03%]
俄勒冈州 euthasia 法案实行第一年的情况报告
B Coombs Lee,J L Werth
B Coombs Lee
Using data from the files of Compassion in Dying, we describe 34 individuals who approached Compassion wanting to use the Death with Dignity Act and who died during the first year of the Act's implementation. Of these 34, 10 died using medi...