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(Philosophy and Medicine. Vol. 67.) Edited by Loretta M. Kopelman and Kenneth A. De Ville. 256 pp. Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Kluwer Academic, 2001. $98.50. ISBN 0-7923-7142-9.

Since ancient times, people have disagreed about the permissibility of suicide, assisted suicide, and physician-assisted suicide. This book presents an overview of the issues involved in the debate about physician-assisted suicide at the end of the 20th century. It contains the papers presented at a bioethics conference on physician-assisted suicide that took place shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people have no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide. The contributors' various disciplines guarantee a broad array of philosophical, moral, legal, and professional reflections about a person's right to control the timing, manner, and means of his or her death. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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