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Physician-Assisted Death: Can Philosophical Bioethics Aid Social Policy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1998

MARK G. KUCZEWSKI
MARK G. KUCZEWSKI
Affiliation:
Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Abstract

The debate regarding physician-assisted suicide continues in our society. Despite the recent opinions of the United States Supreme Court, this issue is unlikely to go away anytime soon. For a variety of reasons, this debate is now conducted in the legalistic terms of individual rights and liberties. As a result, perhaps we philosophers have been left behind. This is now a matter for the legal arena and philosophy is likely to be irrelevant. I would like to suggest otherwise for two reasons.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: EUTHANASIA AND PUBLIC POLICY
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1998 , pp. 339 - 347
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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