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Selected Readings

BOOKS

Albery, N., The Natural Death Handbook. Virgin Books, 1993.

Ariés, P., Western Attitudes toward Death from the Middle Ages to the Present. Marion Boyars Publishers, 1994.

Barnard, C., Good Life, Good Death - a Doctor's Case for Euthanasia and Suicide. Prentice-Hall, 1980.

Beauchamp T, Childress J, Principles of Biomedical Ethics (4th Edition). Oxford University Press, 1994.

Brody, Howard, The Healer's Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. (Chapter 1 was published as "The Chief of Medicine," Hastings Center Report, 21(4):17-22, 1991).

Brody, Howard, Stories of Sickness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Byock, Ira. Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Caplan, Arthur L., If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care. Bloomington, Ind.; Indiana University Press, 1992.

Cassel, Christine and Marilyn Field, eds. Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, 1997.

Despelder, Lynne Ann and Albert Lee Strickland, eds. The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying, 5th ed. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Pub., 1999.

Doka, Kenneth J., Living With Life-Threatening Illness: A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers. Jossey-Bass, 1998.

Garland, Michael J., "Training the Piper to Play a New Tune" in Medical Education: Making the Grade in Cost Containment. R. Cunningham, C. Friedman, and B. Weaver (eds.), pp. 91-94. Battle Creek, Mich; W.K. Kellogg Foundation Publication, 1986.

Garland, Michael J., "From Manifesto to Enforceable Right: Oregon's Contribution to Defining Adequate Health Care," in The Right to Health Care in the United States: Conceptualization, Policy Implications, and Measurement Standards. Audrey Chapman, ed., 1993.

Glick, Henry, The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and its Consequences. New York; Columbia University Press, 1992.

Hamel, R. ,ed., Choosing Death: Active Euthanasia, Religion and the Public Debate. Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics. Philadelphia; Trinity Press International, 1991.

Hill, Patrick T., David Shirley, and Choice in Dying, A Good Death: Taking More Control at the End of Your Life. A Merloyd Lawrence Book; Reading , Mass.; Addison-Wesley, 1992.

Humphry, Derek. Final Exit: The practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying. Hemlock Society, Eugene, Oregon, 1991.

Kaplan, Robert, The Hippocratic Predicament: Affordability, Access, and Accountability in American Medicine. San Diego; Academic Press, 1993.

Kastenbaum, Robert J., Death, Society and the Human Experience. New York; MacMillan Inc., 1991.

Kendig, H., A. Hashimoto and L.C. Coppard, eds, Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience. New York; Oxford University Press, 1992.

Kubler-Ross, Elizabeth. On Death and Dying. Reprint. New York: S&S Trade, 1997.

Logue, B., Last Rights - Death Control and the Elderly in America. Maxwell MacMillan. 1993.

Lynn, Joanne and Joan Harrold, Handbook for Mortals. Oxford University Press, 1999.

Lynn, Joanne, M.D. and Janice Lynch Schuster, with the Center to Improve Care of the Dying and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

McLean, S (ed.) (1996). Contemporary Issues in Law, Medicine and Ethics. Dartmouth.

McLean, S (ed.) (1996). Death, Dying & the Law. Dartmouth.

Moody, Harry R., Ethics in an Aging Society. Baltimore; Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

Morreim, E. Haavi, Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics. Dordrecht; Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1991.

Morreim, E. Haavi,"Rationing and the Law," in Rationing America's Medical Care: The Oregon Plan and Beyond, pp. 159-184. M.A. Strosberg, J.M Wiener, R. Baker, and I.A. Fein, eds. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1992.

Meyer, Charles. A Good Death: Challenges, Choices and Care Options. Mystic, Conn.: 23rd Publications, 1998.

Meyer, Charles. Surviving Death: A Practical Guide to Caring for the Dying and Bereaved. Mystic, Conn.: 23rd Publications, 1991.

Nelson, J.B. and J.S. Rohricht, Human Medicine: Ethical Perspectives on Todays' Medical Issues. Minneapolis; Ausburg Publishing House, 1984.

Nuland, S. How We Die. Chatto & Windus, 1993.

Oaks, Judy and Gene Ezell, Dying and Death: Coping, Caring, and Understanding. Scottsdale, Arizona; Gorsuch Scarisbrick Publishers, 1993.

Quill., Timothy E, Death and Dignity: Making Choices and Taking Charge. New York; W.W. Norton, 1993.

Rachels, J., The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality. Oxford University Press, 1986.

Sabatino, Charles, "Age-based Rationing and the Law: An Exploration," with Nancy Neveloff Dubler, in Too Old for Health Care? Controversies in Medicine, Law, Economics, and Ethics. R.H. Binstock and S.G. Post, eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Shavelson L. (1995). A Chosen Death - The Dying Confront Assisted Suicide. Simon & Schuster.

Singer, P., Rethinking Life & Death - The Collapse of our Traditional Ethics. Oxford University Press, 1995.

Tobin, Daniel and Karen Lindsey. Peaceful Dying: The Step-by-Step Guide to Preserving Your Dignity, Your Choice and Your Inner Peace. Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, 1998.

Webb, Marilyn. The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life. New York: Doubleday, 1999.

SPECIAL REPORTS

Appleton International Conference; Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol 18(3), 1992. Part I: "Decisions involving patients who have decision-making capacity or patients who have executed an advance directive before losing this capacity," pp 6-9. Part II: "Decisions involving patients who have lost the capacity to make decisions and who have not executed an advance directive," pp. 10-12.

"Consumers' guide for planning ahead: The health care power of attorney and the living will. An information paper." United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. U.S. G.P.O. 1992. (SUDOCS: Y 4.AG 4:S.PRT.102-106)

"Deciding to forego life-sustaining treatment: A report on the ethical, medical, and legal issues in treatment decisions." President's Commision for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, U.S. G.P.O., 1983. (SUDOCS: Pr 40.8"Et 3/L 82/2)

"Guidelines for the appropiate use of do-not-resuscitate orders." Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs, American Medical Association, Journal of the American Medical Association, 265(14):1868-1871, 1991.

Law, Medicine and Health Care, 20(4), 1992:

  • Cranford, R. and Gostin, L., "Futility: A concept in search of a definition," pp. 307-309.
  • Miles, S.H., "Medical futility," pp. 310-314.
  • Koch, K.A. et al., "Analysis of power in medical decision-making: an argument for physician autonomy,"pp. 320-326.
  • Alpers, A. and Lo, B., "Futility: Not just a medical issue," pp. 327-329.
  • Grant, E.R., "Medical futility: Legal and ethical aspects," pp. 330-335.
  • Brennan, T.A., "Physicians and futile care: Using ethics committees to slow the momentum," pp. 336-339.

"Practicing the PSDA." A Hastings Center Report Special Supplement. Hastings Center Report, 21:S1-S16, 1991.

Special Issue: Nursing in hospice and terminal care: Research and practice. Hospice Journal, Vol 2(1), 1986. Martocchio, B.C., "Agendas for quality of life," pp. 11-21.

Special Issue: Quality of Life. Journal of Palliative Care, Vol. 8, 1992.

  • Berardo, D.H. and F.M. Berardo, "Quality of life across age and family stage," pp. 52-55.
  • Cella, D.F., "Quality of life: The concept," pp. 8-13.
  • Cohen, S.R. and B.M. Balfour, "Quality of life in terminal illness: Defining and measuring subjective well being in the dying," pp. 40-45.
  • Schacter, S., "Quality of life for families in the management of home care patients with advanced cancer," 61-66.
  • Towlson, K.E. and R.D. Rubens, "Quality of Life: Outcome evaluation," pp. 22-24.

ARTICLES

General and Medical/Ethical Issues

American Nurses Association, "Position Statement on Nursing Care and Do-Not-Resuscitate Decisions." Medical Ethics Advisor, American Health Consultants, 9(5):51-53, 1993.

Ames, K., "Last rights: In sickness and in health, more people are taking life's biggest decision away from doctors and into their own hands." Newsweek (Cover story) 118(9):40-41, (Aug 26 )1991.

Angell, M., "The Case of Helga Wanglie: A New Kind of 'Right to Die' Case." New England Journal of Medicine, 325(7):511-512, 1991.

Annas G.J., et al., "Bioethicists' statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's Cruzan decision." New England Journal of Medicine, 323(10):686-687, 1990.

Begley, S., "Choosing death." (Families learn to cope with decisions of loved ones) Newsweek, 118(9):42-45, (Aug 26) 1991.

Blake, Patricia. Going Gentle into That Good Night. Do Suicide Manuals Help Create a Bias Towards Death? Time, USA. March 21, 1983.

Brockopp, D., "Palliative care: Essential concepts in the education of health professionals." Journal of Palliative Care, 2:18-23, 1987.

Brody, Howard, "Assisted Death — A Compassionate Response to a Medical Failure." New England Journal of Medicine, 327(19):1384-1388, 1992.

Brody, Howard, "Futility and the Ethics of Resuscitation," with T. Tomlinson. Journal of the American Medical Association, 91:580-585, 1991.

Brody, Howard, "Causing, Intending, and Assisting Death." Journal of Clinical Ethics, Summer 1993.

Burke, T.P., "Alternatives to hospital care under employee benefit plans." Monthly Labor Review, 114:9-15, 1991.

Cooper, K.S., "Physician-assisted suicide: Promoting rights or abuse?" ONA (Ontario Nurses Association) News 8(2):3, 1993.

Coyle, N., "The euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide debate: Issues for nursing." Oncology Nursing Forum 19(7): 41-46, 1992.

Daly, B.J., et al, "Withdrawal of mechanical ventilation: Ethical principles and guidelines for terminal weaning." Am J Critical Care 2(3):217-223, 1993.

Dyck, A.J., "Physician-assisted suicide: Is it ethical?" Trends in Health Care, Law and Ethics, 7(2):19-22, 1992.

Emanuel, L.L. and E.J. Emanuel, "Decisions at the end of life: Guided by communities of patients." Hastings Center Report, 23(5):6-14, 1993.

Fadiman, Anne. Death News: Requiem for the Hemlock Quarterly . Harper's Magazine, USA. April, 1994. pages 74-82.

Fairbairn, G., "Enforced death: Enforced life." (Qualtity of life as a basis in enforcing death or life) J Medical Ethics, 17(3):144-149, 1991.

Fried, T.R., et al., "Limits of patient autonomy. Physician attitudes and practices regarding life-sustaining treatments and euthanasia." Archives of Internal Medicine, 153(6):722-728, 1993.

Garland, Michael J., "Justice, Politics and Community: Expanding Access and Rationing Health Services in Oregon." Law Medicine & Health Care, 20(1-2):67-81, 1992.

Hendin, H. and Klerman, G.L., "Physician-assisted suicide: The dangers of legalization." Am Journal of Psychiatry, 150:143-5, 1993.

"Hospice and respite care." Hearing before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session, Elizabeth, New Jersey, June 18, 1990.

Hunt, R.W., "A critique of using age to ration health care." J Med Ethics, 19(1):19-23; discussion 24-27, 1993.

Jones, D.A. and Peters, T.J., "Caring for elderly dependents: Effects on the carers' quality of life." Age and Aging, 21:421-8, 1992.

Kass, L.R., "Is there a right to die?" Hastings Center Report, 23:34-43, 1993.

Kinzel, T., et al., "Palliative care: Attitudes and knowledge of hospital-based nurses and physicians." Loss, Grief and Care, 6(2-3):85-95, 1992.

Koop, E.C., "Decisions at the end of life." Proceedings of the American Philisophical Society, 134:230-42, 1990.

Landers, R.K., "Right to die: Medical, legal & moral issues." Editorial Research Reports, 1(36):554-567, 1990.

Lentzner, H.R. et al., "The quality of life in the year before death." American J ournal of Public Health 82(8):1093-1098, 1992.

Lysaught, Therese M., "Communique: 'Physician Assisted Suicide: Progress or Peril?" Ehik in der Medizin, Winter 1993.

Lysaught, Therese M., "Patient Suffering and the Anointing of the Sick." The Cresset: A Review of Literature, Arts, and Public Affairs, 55:15-21, (February) 1992.

Lysaught, Therese M., "How Autonomy Seduced the Meaning of Human Life: A Commentary on Daniel Callahan's 'How Technology Seduced the Sanctity of Life'." First Things (forthcoming).

Linn, M., et al.., "Effect of nursing home staff training on quality of patient survival." International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 28:305-315, 1989.

Misbin, R.I and Miller, D.H., "Make me live": Autonomy and terminal illness. Hastings Center Report, 20(5):42-44, 1990.

Morreim, E. Haavi, "Profoundly Diminished Life: The Casualties of Coercion." Hastings Center Report, 24(1):33-42, (Jan-Feb) 1994.

Morreim, E. Haavi, "Am I My Brother's Warden? Responding to the Unethical or Incompetent Colleague." Hastings Center Report, 23(3):19-27, (May/June) 1993.

Morreim, E. Haavi, "Impairments and Impediments in Patients' Decision Making: Reframing the Competence Question." Journal of Clinical Ethics, 4(4):294-307, (Winter) 1993.

Orentlicher, D., "The illusion of patient choice in end-of-life decisions." Journal of the American Medical Association, 267(15):2101-2104, 1992.

Orlowski, J.P., et al., "Forgoing life-supporting or death-prolonging therapy: A policy statement." Cleveland Clinical Journal of Medicine, 60(1):81-85, 1993.

Paris, J.J., et al, "Beyond Autonomy--Physicians' Refusal to Use Life-prolonging Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation." New England Journal of Medicine, 329(5):354-357, 1993.

Quill, T.E., "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making." New England Journal of Medicine, 324(10):691-694, 1991.

Quill, T.E., et al., "Care of the Hopelessly Ill: Proposed Clinical Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide." New England Journal of Medicine, 327(19):1380-1384, 1992.

Richmond, S. and Roha, R.R., "Living wills: Avoiding the pitfalls." Changing Times, 44(11):104-105, 1990.

Slomka, J., "The negotiation of death: Clinical decision making at the end of life." Social Science and Medicine, 35:251-9, 1992.

Solomon, M.Z., et al., "Decisions near the end of life: Professional views on life-sustaining treatments." (Public Health Policy Forum) American Journal of Public Health, 83(1):14-23, 1993.

Van-Eys, J., "The ethics of palliative care." Journal of Palliative Care, 7:27-32, 1991.

Vogel, H., "Attitudes of physicians toward hospice, palliative care, dying, and death." Loss, Grief and Care, 6:109-115, 1992.

Walker, C., "Life-sustaining treatment: The physician's role in decision-making." Geriatrics, 47(1):68-70, 1992.

Wear, A.N., and Brahams, D., "To treat or not to treat: The legal, ethical and therapeutic implications of treatment refusal." Journal of Medical Ethics, 17(3):131-134, 1991.

Weir, R.F., "The morality of physician-assisted suicide." Law, Medicine and Health Care 20(1-2):116-26, 1992.

Wolkenstein, A.S. and Butler, D.J., "Quality of life among the elderly: Self-perspectives of some healthy elderly." Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, 12:59-68, 1992.

Cross-Cultural and Religious Issues

Bresnahan, J.F., "Catholic spirituality and medical interventions in dying." America, 164(24):670-675, 1991.

Cameron, N.M.de S., "Living wills and the will to live." Christianity Today, 36(4):22-24, 1992.

Capron, A.M., "Euthanasia in the Netherlands: American observations." Hastings Center Report, 22(2);30-33, 1992.

Doyle, D., "Have we looked beyond the physical and psychosocial?" Journal of Pain and Sympton Management, 7:302-311, 1992.

House, D.M., "Advance medical directives and the role of the church." The Christian Century, 108(35):1137-1139, 1991.

Muller, J.H. and Desmond, B., "Ethical dilemmas in a cross-cultural context. A Chinese example." West J Med, 157(3):323-327, 1992,

O'Neill, W.M., et al., "Hospital palliative care services: Three models in three countries." Journal of Pain and Sympton Management, vol. 7, 1992.

Wreen, M.J., "Autonomy, religious values, and refusal of lifesaving medical treatment." Journal of Medical Ethics, 17(3):124-130, 1991.

Legal Issues

Annas, G.J., "Physician-assisted Suicide -- Michigan's Temporary Solution." Legal Issues in Medicine, New England Journal of Medicine, 328(21): 1573-1576, 1993.

Garland, Michael J., "Light on the Black Box of Health Care: Oregon's Contribution to the National Movement Toward Universal Health Insurance." Yale Review of Law and Policy, 10(2):409-30, 1992.

Glick, H.R., "Judicial innovation and policy re-invention: State supreme courts and the right to die." Western Political Quarterly, 45:71-92, 1992.

Goldberb, M.Z., "Court guidelines issued for right-to-die cases." Trial 28(3):79-81, 1992.

Gostin, L.O., "Drawing a line between killing and letting die: The law, and law reform, on medically assisted dying." J Law, Medicine and Ethics, 21(1):94-101, 1993.

Hadorn, D.C., "Emerging parallels in the American health care and legal-judicial systems." American Journal of Law & Medicine, 18(1-2):73-96, 1992.

Kamisar, Y., "Are laws against assisted suicide unconstitutional?" Hastings Center Report, 23(3):32-41, 1993.

Mearns, M. "The states, right-to-die laws and active enthanasia." Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 12:59-104, 1992.

Morreim, E. Haavi, "Blessed be the Tie that Binds? Antitrust Perils of Physician Investment and Self-Referral." Journal of Legal Medicine, 14(3):359-412, 1993.

Sabatino, Charles, "Consumer-Directed Homecare: What Makes it Possible?" with S. Litvak, Generations, (a journal of the American Society on Aging), 16(1):53, (Winter) 1992.

Sabatino, Charles, "Death in the Legislature: Inventing Legal Tools for Autonomy," New York Review of Law & Social Change, 19:309, 1991-92.

Sabatino, Charles, "Surely the Wizard Will Help Us, Toto? Implementing the Patient Self-Determination Act," Hastings Center Report, 23:12 (Jan-Feb) 1993.

Sabatino, Charles, "Health Care Powers of Attorney: An Introduction and Form," American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, 1990.**

Sabatino, Charles, "Patient Self-Determination Act State Law Guide," American Bar Association, 1991. (Available from the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, 1800 M Street, Washington, D.C. 20036-5886.

van der Maas, P. J., "Euthanasia and other medical decisions concerning the end of life." An investigation performed upon request of the Commission of Inquiry into the Medical Practice concerning Euthanasia." Health Policy, 22:3-262, 1992.

 



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