When Killing Is Wrong: Physician Assisted Suicide and the Courts.

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Dyck, Arthur J. When Killing Is Wrong: Physician Assisted Suicide and the Courts. CLeveland, Ohio: The Pilgrim Press, 2001; 216-736-3755; .

Arthur J. Dyck, professor of population ethics in the School of Public Health and member of the faculty of Divinity at Harvard University, explores the division created in the courts over the debate about legalizing assisted suicide. Using opinions written in recent court cases, Prof. Dyck analyzes the legal traditions and modes of moral reasoning used in the court decisions on this matter.

The author identifies the ways in which physician assisted suicide may be distinguished...