Choice in Dying: A Political and Constitutional Context

Authors

Sylvia A. Law, New York University School of LawFollow

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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.

First Page

300

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

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Recommended Citation

Sylvia A. Law, Choice in Dying: A Political and Constitutional Context, Physician-Assisted Dying: The Case for Palliative Care and Patient Choice 300 (2004).
Available at: https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1283