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By Joseph J. Fins. 281 pp. Sudbury, Mass., Jones and Bartlett, 2006. $39.95. ISBN 0-7637-3292-3.

"If there were a silver lining about the physician-assisted suicide debate, it was that this tension helped catalyze the palliative care movement." So writes Joseph Fins in A Palliative Ethic of Care. People on both sides of the issue of physician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, as well as the justices of the Supreme Court, concur that palliative care should be the reasonable alternative. Given the recent déjà vu challenges to Oregon's legislation permitting physician-assisted suicide, and the ordeal of Terri Schiavo, I am hopeful that these events will push the development of palliative medicine forward.

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