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(Medical Ethics Series.) Edited by Robert F. Weir. 266 pp. Bloomington, Ind., Indiana University Press, 1997. $29.95. ISBN 0-253-33282-6.

Intense public and professional attention has been focused on physician-assisted suicide since 1990, when Jack Kevorkian performed the first in a highly publicized series of assisted deaths. The debate is likely to continue in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, which decisively shifts the policy focus to state legislatures and referendums. Those seeking a guide to the moral landscape of physician-assisted suicide — one of the deepest and most controversial issues of medical ethics — will be rewarded by reading this multiauthored book. It is organized in sets of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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