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By Peter G. Filene. 282 pp. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, 1998. $27.50. ISBN 1-56663-188-2.

Commenting on the narrow defeat of referendums to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Washington and California in the early 1990s, Peter Filene writes, "Fifteen years earlier — no more than a minute or two of cultural-historical time — Americans had been hesitant to legalize living wills. Now 46 percent voted to legalize not simply passive euthanasia but active euthanasia by doctors." In the Arms of Others is a terrifically well written narrative of how we got from there to here. ("Here," of course, now includes Oregon's statute on physician-assisted suicide, which has already been invoked in the suicides of several Oregonians.) . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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