Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop

Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop
ISBN-10
0309476984
ISBN-13
9780309476980
Series
Physician-Assisted Death
Category
Medical
Pages
179
Language
English
Published
2018-08-29
Publisher
National Academies Press
Authors
Board on Health Sciences Policy, Health and Medicine Division, Engineering

Description

The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients. While public opinion is divided and public policy debates include moral, ethical, and policy considerations, a demand for physician-assisted death persists among some patients, and the inconsistent legal terrain leaves a number of questions and challenges for health care providers to navigate when presented with patients considering or requesting physician-assisted death. To discuss what is known and not known empirically about the practice of physician-assisted death, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC, on February 12â€"13, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

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