Choice in Dying: A Political and Constitutional Context
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Description
This chapter seeks to place in historic perspective the current movement for compassion and patient choice at the end of life. While legal principles are important, the complex factors that shape individual consciousness, human relations, and social movement are also critical. Since 1990 a vibrant movement for patient choice at the end of life has emerged in the United States. Two important developments promote this movement: first, advances in medicine and technology; second, the ongoing struggles for civil rights, respect, and choice on the part of racial minorities, women, gay people, and people with disabilities.
Source Publication
Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice
Source Editors/Authors
Timothy E. Quill, Margaret P. Battin
Publication Date
2004
Recommended Citation
Law, Sylvia A., "Choice in Dying: A Political and Constitutional Context" (2004). Faculty Chapters. 1283.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1283
