The euthanasia / assisted-suicide debate

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Medical Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Twentieth-Century Issue

2. The 1930s and 1940s: From the King of England to the Holocaust

3. The 1950s: The First Anglo-American Prosecutions for Medical Euthanasia and the Resulting Academic Debate

4. The 1960s-1980s: Decriminalizing Suicide and Non-Voluntary Euthanasia of Those in Persistent Vegetative States

5. The 1990s and Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian: From Physician-Assisted Suicide to Medical Euthanasia

6. The 1990s: The Non-Michigan Parallel Text of Doctor Prosecution and Initial Failed Legislative Efforts

7. Legalizing and Implementing Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon in the 1990s and 2000s

8. The 2000s: Post-Millennium Case Studies of State Reactions to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Concluding Commentary

Appendix: Table of Cases, Legislation, Proposed Legislation, and Initiatives

Glossary

Bibliography

Index