The euthanasia/assisted-suicide debate

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Medical euthanasia and assisted suicide: a twentieth-century issue

2: 1930s and 1940s: from the King of England to the Holocaust

3: 1950s: the first Anglo-American prosecutions for medical euthanasia and the resulting academic debate

4: 1960s-1980s: decriminalizing suicide and non-voluntary euthanasia of those in persistent vegetative states

5: 1990s and Jack "Dr Death" Kevorkian: from physician-assisted suicide to medical euthanasia

6: 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: 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.