Physician-Assisted Death

Scanning the Landscape: Proceedings of a Workshop

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309476980
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Philosophy

The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients. While public opinion is divided and public policy debates include moral, ethical, and policy considerations, a demand for physician-assisted death persists among some patients, and the inconsistent legal terrain leaves a number of questions and challenges for health care providers to navigate when presented with patients considering or requesting physician-assisted death.To discuss what is known and not known empirically about the practice of physician-assisted death, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC, on February 12"e;13, 2018. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Table of contents

• COVER PAGE
• TITLE PAGE
• COPYRIGHT PAGE
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
• 1 INTRODUCTION
• 2 CONCEPTUAL, LEGAL, AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH
• 3 EXPERIENCES WITH AND REFLECTIONS ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH IN THE UNITED STATES
• 4 EXPERIENCES WITH AND REFLECTIONS ON PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH INTERNATIONALLY
• 5 IMPLEMENTATION AND PRACTICE OF PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH
• 6 PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH IN THE CONTEXT OF LONG-TERM SERVICES AND SUPPORTS, PALLIATIVE CARE, AND HOSPICE
• 7 REFLECTIONS ON THE WORKSHOP AND EVIDENTIARY GAPS
• APPENDIXES