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  1. End-of-life care in The Netherlands and the United States: a comparison of values, justifications, and practices.Timothy E. Quill & Gerrit Kimsma - 1997 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (2):189-.
    Voluntary active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain technically illegal in the Netherlands, but the practices are openly tolerated provided that physicians adhere to carefully constructed guidelines. Harsh criticism of the Dutch practice by authors in the United States and Great Britain has made achieving a balanced understanding of its clinical, moral, and policy implications very difficult. Similar practice patterns probably exist in the United States, but they are conducted in secret because of a more uncertain legal and ethical climate. In (...)
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  • When Physicians Choose to Participate in the Death of Their Patients: Ethics and Physician-Assisted Suicide.David C. Thomasma - 1996 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 24 (3):183-197.
    Physicians have long aided their patients in dying in an effort to ease human suffering. It is only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the prolongation of life has taken on new meaning due to the powers now available to physicians, through new drugs and high technology interventions. Whereas earlier physicians and patients could readily acknowledge that nothing further could be done, today that judgment is problematic.Most often, aiding the dying took the form of not doing anything further to (...)
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  • When Physicians Choose to Participate in the Death of Their Patients: Ethics and Physician-Assisted Suicide.David C. Thomasma - 1996 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 24 (3):183-197.
    Physicians have long aided their patients in dying in an effort to ease human suffering. It is only in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the prolongation of life has taken on new meaning due to the powers now available to physicians, through new drugs and high technology interventions. Whereas earlier physicians and patients could readily acknowledge that nothing further could be done, today that judgment is problematic.Most often, aiding the dying took the form of not doing anything further to (...)
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  • The Caduceus in court: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in The Netherlands.Robert L. Schwartz - 1995 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 4 (1):111.
    As ethics committees become involved in discussing the propriety of euthanasia and assisted suicide, and as healthcare providers begin to seriously consider whether they might ever have a role in hastening the dying process, many have looked to The Netherlands as the only real example of a nation that permits euthanasia in limited circumstances. Unfortunately, partisans in the Dutch debate have often written about the Dutch experience as advocates rather than as neutral observers. Some have argued that euthanasia, which, they (...)
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  • End-of-Life Care in the Netherlands and the United States: A Comparison of Values, Justifications, and Practices.Timothy E. Quill & Gerrit Kimsma - 1997 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (2):189-204.
    Voluntary active euthanasia (VAE) and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) remain technically illegal in the Netherlands, but the practices are openly tolerated provided that physicians adhere to carefully constructed guidelines. Harsh criticism of the Dutch practice by authors in the United States and Great Britain has made achieving a balanced understanding of its clinical, moral, and policy implications very difficult. Similar practice patterns probably exist in the United States, but they are conducted in secret because of a more uncertain legal and ethical (...)
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide in Context: Constitutional, Regulatory, and Professional Challenges.Bernard Lo, Karen H. Rothenberg & Michael Vasko - 1996 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 24 (3):181-182.
    Last month, a fifty-eight-year old man developed bleeding into his cheek and oozing from sites where previously he had had blood samples drawn. This bleeding was caused by disseminated intravascular coagulation, a complication of colon cancer that had spread to his liver and lungs. This complication occurred even though he was on chemotherapy for the cancer. In the hospital, he received transfusions and was administered medicine to stop the bleeding. However, his condition did not improve. He developed more bruises. When (...)
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide in Context: Constitutional, Regulatory, and Professional Challenges.Bernard Lo, Karen H. Rothenberg & Michael Vasko - 1996 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 24 (3):181-182.
    Last month, a fifty-eight-year old man developed bleeding into his cheek and oozing from sites where previously he had had blood samples drawn. This bleeding was caused by disseminated intravascular coagulation, a complication of colon cancer that had spread to his liver and lungs. This complication occurred even though he was on chemotherapy for the cancer. In the hospital, he received transfusions and was administered medicine to stop the bleeding. However, his condition did not improve. He developed more bruises. When (...)
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: Developments in the Netherlands.Johan Legemaate & J. K. M. Gevers - 1997 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 6 (2):175.
    For more than two decades euthanasia and assisted suicide have been openly debated in the Netherlands. This development started in 1973 when the Regional Court in Leeuwarden decided a case in which a physician had administered a deadly dose of morphine to her terminally ill mother on the mother's serious and persistent request. In this case the court concluded that the average Dutch physician no longer considered it his or her duty to prolong a patient's life under all circumstances. The (...)
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Dutch Courts.J. K. M. Gevers - 1996 - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 5 (1):93.
    Over the last two decades, Dutch courts have left room for euthanasia. Although a crime under the Penal Code, euthanasia will usually not result in prosecution and conviction if it is committed by a physician according to rules of careful medical practice ; if the patient's request is voluntary, well-considered, and enduring; and if there is unacceptable and hopeless suffering and there are no other solutions to the patient's situation.
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  • Physician assisted suicide: New developments in the netherlands.Sjef Gevers - 1995 - Bioethics 9 (3):309–312.
    Until recently, physician assisted suicide was dealt with on the same basis as active voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands. Over the last years, several cases relating to assistance in suicide of mental patients did raise specific issues, not addressed so far in the debate on euthanasia. One of these cases resulted in a Supreme Court decision. The paper summarizes this decision and comments on it from a legal point of view.
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