Paging Dr. Death
The Political Theater of Assisted Suicide in Michigan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12062000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan P Fino (corresponding author), John M Strate, John Strate, Marvin Zalman |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-103 |
| Publication date | 1997-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics and the Life Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0730-9384 • E-ISSN: 1471-5457 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s073093840002030x |
| OpenAlex | W2586534296 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 13 |
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a retired pathologist from Royal Oak, Michigan, created an instant sensation on June 4, 1990, when he assisted Janet Adkins in committing suicide by lethal injection. Kevorkian's activities, and the ineffectual efforts of public officials to stop him, generated social conflict, issue expansion, and political theater. In this case, political theater involved acts of civil disobedience that resulted in arrests, three high-profile criminal trials, and three subsequent acquittals. As the participants in the conflict tried to generate public support for their respective positions, the debate degenerated into name-calling, hyperbole, and rights talk. This kind of public discourse limits the potential for self-governance and leads to reliance on the courts or other methods of conflict resolution
Assisted suicide · Civil disobedience · Criminology · Hyperbole · Metaphor · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Writ · Academic Freedom and Politics · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Torture, Ethics, and Law
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2005 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |