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  1. Physician-Assisted Suicide and Criminal Prosecution: Are Physicians at Risk?Stephen J. Ziegler - 2005 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 33 (2):349-358.
    The legalization of physician-assisted suicide remains a hotly debated issue throughout the United States, and continues to capture the attention of government officials at both the state and federal levels. While the practice is currently legal in Oregon, some federal lawmakers and officials from the U.S. Department of Justice have attempted to outlaw that state's practice through legislation, or through a strained interpretation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. And while several citizen groups throughout the United States have attempted but (...)
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  • Physician-Assisted Suicide and Criminal Prosecution: Are Physicians at Risk?Stephen J. Ziegler - 2005 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 33 (2):349-358.
    The legalization of physician-assisted suicide remains a hotly debated issue throughout the United States, and continues to capture the attention of government officials at both the state and federal levels. While the practice is currently legal in Oregon, some federal lawmakers and officials from the U.S. Department of Justice have attempted to outlaw that state's practice through legislation, or through a strained interpretation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. And while several citizen groups throughout the United States have attempted but (...)
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  • Collaborated Death: An Exploration of the Swiss Model of Assisted Suicide for Its Potential to Enhance Oversight and Demedicalize the Dying Process.Stephen J. Ziegler - 2009 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 37 (2):318-330.
    Death, like many social problems, has become medicalized. In response to this medicalization, physician-assisted suicide has emerged as one alternative among many at the end of life. And although the practice is currently legal in the states of Oregon and Washington, opponents still argue that PAS is unethical, is inconsistent with a physician's role, and cannot be effectively regulated. In comparison, Switzerland, like Oregon, permits PAS, but unlike Oregon, non-physicians and private organizations play a significant role in assisted death. Could (...)
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  • Collaborated Death: An Exploration of the Swiss Model of Assisted Suicide for Its Potential to Enhance Oversight and Demedicalize the Dying Process.Stephen J. Ziegler - 2009 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 37 (2):318-330.
    Medicalized Death and the Right to Die Movement Prior to the 20th Century, most Americans died at home, surrounded by family, friends, and neighbors. Religion, not medicine, governed the death bed for there was little physicians could do for the dying. Eventually, however, advances in medicine and technology would lead to dramatic changes in the timing and location of death: patients not only began living longer, they were also dying longer, and unlike their predecessors, were more likely to die alone, (...)
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  • Providing Relief to Those in Pain: A Retrospective on the Scholarship and Impact of the Mayday Project.Sandra H. Johnson - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (1):15-20.
    Scholarship has intrinsic value, of course; but when good scholarship can stimulate change for the better in an area as fundamental to human dignity as health care and the relief of suffering, there is a special satisfaction. This has been our experience since 1996, when the first of now four special issues of this journal focused on legal, regulatory, ethical, professional, and financial issues in medical treatment for pain.With the generous and steadfast support of the Mayday Fund, the American Society (...)
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  • Providing Relief to Those in Pain: A Retrospective on the Scholarship and Impact of the Mayday Project.Sandra H. Johnson - 2003 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 31 (1):15-20.
    Scholarship has intrinsic value, of course; but when good scholarship can stimulate change for the better in an area as fundamental to human dignity as health care and the relief of suffering, there is a special satisfaction. This has been our experience since 1996, when the first of now four special issues of this journal focused on legal, regulatory, ethical, professional, and financial issues in medical treatment for pain.With the generous and steadfast support of the Mayday Fund, the American Society (...)
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  • Do physicians' legal duties to patients conflict with public health values? The case of antibiotic overprescription.Carl H. Coleman - 2009 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (2):181-185.
    Among the many explanations for antibiotic overprescription, some doctors cite the risk of malpractice liability if they deny a patient's request for an antibiotic and the patient's condition worsens. In this paper, I examine the merits of this concern—i.e., whether physicians could, in fact, face malpractice liability for refusing to prescribe an antibiotic when, from a public health perspective, the use of the antibiotic would be considered inappropriate. I conclude that the potential for liability cannot be dismissed entirely, but the (...)
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