The Politics of Physician Assisted Suicide (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America)

By Nina Clark

First published in 1997. Nina Clark offers a pithy and valuable record of the political battles so far over voluntary, medically-hastened death. The purpose of the study is to examine the different ways in which the American political system has responded to the issue of patient autonomy; to explore its viability as an object of direct democracy; and to study the political activity and attitudes of individuals in relation to physician assisted suicide, particularly the elderly.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815326459
• ISBN13: 9780815326458
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"