Terminally ill patients in the United States have four medical options for controlling the time and manner of their death. Three of these are legally availablePope, Thaddeus MasonSocial Science Electronic PublishingPope TM. Legal history of medical aid in dying: physician assisted death in US ...
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED SUICIDE Robert Kastenbaum RATIONAL SUICIDE Brian L. Mishara SUICIDE PACTS Janie Houle, Isabelle Marcoux THEORIES OF SUICIDE David Lester INDIRECT SUICIDE Suicide, perhaps the most obvious type of avoidable death at any age, is an intentional act that quickly results in death. ...
Unwritten history is not easy to interpret, and, although much may be learned from a study of the drawings, bony remains, and surgical tools of early humans, it is difficult to reconstruct their mental attitude toward the problems of disease and death. It seems probable that, as soon as th...
actorsSebastian Stanand Tom Pelphrey, economist and educatorMilton Friedman, and award-winning journalist Natalie Morales. Immunologist and physician Michael Stuart Gottlieb, who in 1981 was one of the researchers who identified and documented what later came to be termedAIDS, is also analumnusof the...
When leaders call COVID-19 the “China virus,” it harkens back to decades of state-sanctioned discrimination against Asian Americans.
He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed by religion through the medicalization of death with the physician presiding over the deathbed, to the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Unlike previous books, which have focused on law and technique as explanations for the rise ...
The term “microscope” was used for the first time in 1625 by the Italian physician Giovanni Faber [1]. The first publication, in which Petrus Borellus described the use of microscope in medicine, was written in 1653. He presented 100 microscopic observations and applications (e.g., ...
Not only that, Buck’s infant daughter, Amelia, had been examined by the Colony physician and, so he swore in court, already showed signs of feeblemindedness. After breezily remarking that involuntary sterilization served public welfare no less than vaccination, Holmes ordered the sterilization of ...
Sep 16 Samuel Coster, Dutch physician/playwright (Polyxena) on this day in history. Sep 17 Pedro Menendez de Aviles, soldier/navigator, dies on this day in history. Sep 18 On this day in history claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet Oct 01 -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,...
Autopsy, dissection and examination of a dead body and its organs and structures. An autopsy may be performed to determine the cause of death, to observe the effects of disease, and to establish the evolution and mechanisms of disease processes. Learn mo