On the Difference between Physician-Assisted Suicide and Active Euthanasia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20335877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicholas Dixon (0000-0002-9840-338X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 25 |
| Publication date | 1998-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3528229 |
| PMID | 11656767 |
| OpenAlex | W2019361731 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
Those who defend physician-assisted suicide often seek to distinguish it from active euthanasia, but in fact, the two acts face the same objections. Both can lead to abuse, both implicate the physician in the death of a patient, and both violate whatever objections there are to killing. Their moral similarity derives from the similar roles of the physician
Assisted suicide · Face (sociological concept) · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Physician assisted suicide · Poison control · Psychiatry · Similarity (geometry) · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Ethics in medical practice · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |