Asking to die : inside the Dutch debate about euthanasia

Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia
Author: David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma, Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci
Published by Springer Netherlands
ISBN: 978-0-7923-5185-6
DOI: 10.1007/978-0-306-46863-6

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• The Dutch Definition of Euthanasia
• Twenty-Five Years of Dutch Experience and Policy on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: An Overview
• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and the USA: Comparing Practices, Justifications and Key Concepts in Bioethics and Law
• Physician Assisted Suicide in Psychiatry: An Analysis of Case Law and Professional Opinions
• The Slippery Slope: Are The Dutch Sliding Down or Are They Clambering Up?
• Teaching Euthanasia: The Integration of the Practice of Euthanasia into Grief, Death and Dying Curricula of Post-Graduate Family Medicine Training
• Comparing Two Euthanasia Protocols: The Free University of Amsterdam Academic Hospital and the Medical Center of Alkmaar
• Euthanasia Drugs in the Netherlands
• Empirical Research on Euthanasia and Other Medical End-of-Life Decisions and the Euthanasia Notification Procedure
• Palliative Care: Dutch Hospice and Euthanasia
• Euthanasia and the Power of Medicine
• A Religious Argument in Favor of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
• The Range of Objections to Euthanasia
• Catholic Healthcare and the Dutch National Character
• Annie Asked, “Are You Going to Help Me?”
• “In Death He Achieved a Stature that He Never Had in Life”
• “The Moment Will Come When I Will Have to Kill Him”
• “Killing is Always Bad, But Not Always the Worst Alternative”
• “A Tragedy”

Includes bibliographical references and index