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Edited by Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin. 371 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. $49.95. ISBN 0-8018-6792-4.

Few medical issues arouse such strongly passionate opinions among health care professionals and laypersons alike as the debate about physician-assisted suicide. This valuable and intentionally provocative book will add much light — and undoubtedly some heat — to the debate.

Foley and Hendin have assembled contributions from leading experts in diverse disciplines, all for the explicit purpose of making the "case against assisted suicide." The editors are well qualified in their own right. Foley, a neurologist, is an attending physician on the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Hendin, a psychiatrist, is medical director of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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