Physician-assisted death in perspective : assessing the Dutch experience / edited by Stuart J. Youngner, Gerrit K. Kimsma.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

xxv, 403 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The lateness of the Dutch euthanasia debate and its consequences / James C. Kennedy -- Classifications and definitions : Dutch developments / Johan Legemaate -- Legalization of euthanasia in the Netherlands : revolutionary normality / Heleen Weyers -- The normative context of the Dutch euthanasia law / Esther Pans -- Dutch social groups on "euthanasia": the political spectrum on ending life on request / Heleen Weyers -- The Dutch social fabric : health care, trust, and solidarity / Margo Trappenburg and Hans Oversloot -- The unreported cases / Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen -- Physician assistance in dying without an explicit request by the patient / Agnes van der Heide -- When requests do not result in euthanasia or assisted suicide / H. Roeline W. Pasman -- Dutch euthanasia in retrospect / John Griffiths -- Euthanasia consultants : professional assessment before euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands / Gerrit K. Kimsma -- Reviews after the act : the role and work of regional euthanasia review committees / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Evert van Leeuwen -- Palliative care and physician-assisted death / Dick Willems -- Unbearable suffering and advanced dementia : the moral problems of advance directives for euthanasia / Cees M.P.M. Hertogh -- Decision-making capacity in patients who are in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease and who request physician-assisted suicide / Ron Berghmans -- Being "weary of life" as cause for seeking euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide / Mette Rurup -- Shared obligations and "medical friendships" in assisted dying : moral and psychological repercussions reconsidered / Gerrit K. Kimsma and Chalmers C. Clark -- Depression, euthanasia, and assisted suicide / Marije van der Lee -- End-of-life decisions in children and newborns in the Netherlands / Pieter J.J. Sauer and A.A. Eduard Verhagen -- Hastening death through voluntary cessation of eating and drinking : a survey / Boudewijn E. Chabot -- The subjectivity of suffering and the normativity of unbearableness / Henri Wijsbek -- Assessment of unbearable and hopeless suffering in evaluating a request to end life / Gerrit K. Kimsma -- The regulation of euthanasia : how successful is the Dutch system? / Govert den Hartogh -- No regrets / Margo Trappenburg.