Denis J Hunter

• Physician-assisted suicide and the politics of problem definition

  John M Strate, John Strate et al.•ARTICLE•Mortality•2005

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  In the United States the issue of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) first reached the governmental agenda in the state of Michigan. This occurred because of the personal crusade of Dr Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, to legalize PAS. In June 1990 Kevorkian initiated his crusade by assisting Janet Adkins, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, to commit suicide. The bizarre nature of the suicide—conducted in the back end of Kevorkian's Volksw…

• Physician-assisted suicide and the politics of problem definition

  John M Strate, John Strate et al.•ARTICLE•Mortality•2005

  Incluir item

  In the United States the issue of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) first reached the governmental agenda in the state of Michigan. This occurred because of the personal crusade of Dr Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist, to legalize PAS. In June 1990 Kevorkian initiated his crusade by assisting Janet Adkins, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, to commit suicide. The bizarre nature of the suicide—conducted in the back end of Kevorkian's Volksw…

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