Download This PaperThe Case Against Assisted Suicide Reexamined
28 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2009
Date Written: 2002
Abstract
This Review Article examines the dominant legal and ethical arguments for and against assisted suicide. The Article argues that common practice of medicine and conceptual claims against assisted suicide do not withstand philosophical scrutiny.
Keywords: assisted suicide, access to health care, autonomy, palliative care, acts and omissions
JEL Classification: 100
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Satz, Ani B., The Case Against Assisted Suicide Reexamined (2002). Michigan Law Review, Vol. 100, No. 6, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1468722
Ani B. Satz (Contact Author)
Emory University School of Law ( email )
1301 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30322
United States
HOME PAGE: http://www.law.emory.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/ani-b-satz.html
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