Preface.

• Author: Bostrom, Barry A.
• Position: Other People's Lives: Reflections on Medicine, Ethics, and Euthanasia

This volume of Issues in Law and Medicine presents for the first time in the English language the complete book Other People's Lives: Reflections on Medicine, Ethics, and Euthanasia, by Richard Fenigsen, M.D., Ph.D. It is a translation from the original Polish language version published in 2010 with the title Przysiega Hipokratesa [The Hippocratic Oath] by Ryszard Fenigsen. As our readers know, we have previously published all of the book piecemeal since 2008, with the sole exception of the last two chapters and the appendices which appear here for the first time. Dr. Fenigsen is a retired cardiologist from the Netherlands, and has observed many changes in ethics and medical practice, in part due to the acceptance of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia there. In the final chapter he discusses the...