Physician-Assisted Suicide
Robert F. Weir
Indiana University Press
"The book is extremely well balanced: in each section there is                  usually an argument for and against the positions raised. It is a useful and                  well-thought-out text. It will make people think and discuss the problems raised,                  which I think is the editor's main purpose." -- Journal of Medical                  Ethics"... a volume that is to be commended for the clarity                  of its contributions, and for the depth it gains from its narrow focus. In places,                  this is a deeply moving, as well as closely argued, book." -- Times Literary                  Supplement"This work is an excellent historical and                  philosophical resource on a very difficult subject." --                  Choice"This collection of well-written and carefully argued                  essays should be interesting, illuminating, and thought provoking for students,                  clinicians, and scholars." -- New England Journal of                  Medicine"This book is highly recommended..." --                  Pharmacy Book Review"This is a well-balanced collection and                  the essays are of uniformly good quality.... very readable.... should be useful to                  anyone interested in this topic." -- Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Home                  Page"Physician-Assisted Suicide continues in the fine                  tradition of the Medical Ethics series published by Indiana University Press.                  Chapters are authored by outstanding scholars from both sides of the debate,                  providing a balanced, in-depth exploration of physician-assisted suicide along                  clinical, ethical, historical, and public policy dimensions. It is important reading                  for those who want to better understand the complex, multilayered issues that                  underlie this emotionally-laden topic." -- Timothy Quill,                  M.D."Robert Weir has produced the finest collection of                  essays on physician assisted dying yet assembled in one volume. Physician assisted                  dying involves ethical and legal issues of enormous complexity. The deep strength of                  this anthology is its multi-disciplinary approach, which insightfully brings to bear                  interpretations from history, moral philosophy, religion, clinical practice, and                  law. This is a subject, much like abortion, that has divided America. This volume                  provides balanced scholarship that will help inform opinions from the hospital and                  hospice bedside to the halls of federal and state legislatures and courtrooms."                  -- Lawrence O. Gostin, Co-Director, Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and                  Public Health"This book is a timely and valuable                  contribution to the debate. Highly recommended for academic collections." --                  Library JournalThese essays shed light and perspective on today's                  hotly contested issue of physician-assisted suicide. The authors were selected not                  only because of their experience and scholarship, but also because they provide                  readers with differing points of view on this complex subject -- and a potential                  moral quandary for us all.