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Advance Directives
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Right to Die
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Assisted Suicide
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Organ Donation
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I. ADVANCE DIRECTIVES
A. Print Sources
Cantor, Norman L. Advance directives and the pursuit of death with
dignity. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .C34
Doukas, David John, and William Reichel. Planning for
uncertainty : a guide to living wills and other advance directives for health
care. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 D68
Hackler, Chris, et al., eds. Advance directives in medicine.
New York : Praeger, 1989.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R724 .A28
Irving, Shae. Medical directives and powers of attorney for
California.
Berkeley, Calif.
: Nolo, 2003
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KFC 619.5 .R5 I78 2004
Krohm, Carol, et al. Advance health care directives : a handbook
for professionals.
Chicago, Ill.
: American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division, c2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726.2 .K76 2002
McLean, Sheila A.M., ed. Death, dying, and the law.
Aldershot; Brookfield, USA : Dartmouth, c1996.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: KD3410.E88 D42
Olick, Robert S.
Taking advance directives seriously : prospective
autonomy and decisions near the end of life
Washington, D.C.
: Georgetown University Press, c2001.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 O43 2001
Practicing the PSDA.
Briarcliff Manor, NY (255 Elm Rd., Briarcliff Manor
10510) : Hastings Center, 1991.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 P72
Sass, Hans-Martin, ed.
Advance directives and surrogate decision making in health care : United States, Germany, and Japan.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726.2 .A38 1998
B. Video
American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Annual Meeting (1997 :
Rancho Mirage, Calif.) What every lawyer needs to know about medical care
to write effective advance directives [videorecording]. [Santa Monica , Calif.] : ACTEC, 1997.
LOCATION: Reserve
CALL NO.: R726 .A43 1997
C. Internet
Resources
[NOTE: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some
of the sites noted throughout this research guide may no longer exist under the
addresses provided. To locate changed addresses, search for the page title
using an Internet search engine such as Google.com Altavista.com or HotBot.com.]
American Bar Association : ABA Commission on Law
and Aging
http://www.abanet.org/aging/home.html
This website provides information about advance directives and links
to publications and other information about health care decision-making.
California Secretary of State
http://www.ag.ca.gov/consumers/general/adv_hc_dir.htm
This website explains California law regarding Advance
Health Care Directives, and provides links to sample forms which comply with
that law.
California Coalition for Compassionate Care
http://www.coalitionccc.org/
Training and educational materials for health care providers,
organizations and consumers regarding California’s Health Care Decisions Law,
assessing medical decision-making capacity, and policy considerations regarding
advance health care directives.
II. RIGHT TO DIE
A. Printed Sources
Berger, Arthur S. When life ends: legal overviews, medicolegal
forms, and hospital policies. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726.8 .B47
Filene, Peter G. In the arms of others : a cultural history of
the right-to-die in America. Chicago : I.R. Dee, 1998.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .F45 1998
Hillyard, Daniel, et al. Dying right : the death with dignity movement.
New York : Routledge, 2001.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 H55 2001
Humphry, Derek, et al.
Freedom to die : people, politics, and the
right-to-die movement.
New York : St. Martin's Press, c1998.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .H844 1998
Logue, Barbara. Last rights : death control and the elderly in America. New York : Lexington Books; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan; New York: Maxwell
Macmillan International, c1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .L6
Meisel, Alan, et al. The right to die : the law of end-of-life
decision-making.
New
York : Aspen Publishers, 2004.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 M45 2004
Obade, Claire C. Patient care decision-making : a legal guide
for providers.
Deerfield, IL :
Clark Boardman Callaghan, c1991-
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3825 .O2
Olson, Ellen, et al., eds. Controversies in ethics in long-term
care. New York: Springer Pub. Co., c1995.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .C66
Trepkowski, Michele A., ed. Hospice and hemlock: retaining
dignity, integrity and self-respect in end-of-life decisions : a perspective.
Eugene, Or. : Hemlock Society U.S.A., c1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .H67
Urofsky, Melvin I., and Philip E. Urofsky, series eds. The
right to die: a two-volume anthology of scholarly articles. New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 R53
B. Internet
Resources
[NOTE: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some
of the sites noted throughout this research guide may no longer exist under the
addresses provided. To locate changed addresses, search for the page title
using an Internet search engine such as Google.com., altavista.com or
hotbot.com]
Compassion & Choices
http://www.compassionandchoices.org/
Compassion & Choices, the successor organization to the Hemlock
Society, is a national organization which provides information, counseling, and
support to terminally-ill individuals, and advocates for changes in laws
regarding pain management, advance directives and in favor of physician-assisted
suicide. Its web site includes links to court cases, proposed legislation and
other legal advocacy materials.
University of Missouri and Kansas City Law School: Exploring Constitutional Conflicts
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/righttodie.htm
This site discusses several seminal Right to Die cases, and provides
links to those case opinions and briefs and other materials.
The World Federation of Right to Die Societies
http://www.worldrtd.net/
The World Federation of Right to Die Societies is an international
network of organizations which advocate for right-to-die principles. Their
website provides links to member organizations, legislation in countries around
the world, and to sites for medical ethics organizations and organizations
which oppose some or all principles of the Right to Die movement.
III. ASSISTED SUICIDE
A. Printed Sources
Battin, Margaret P. [et al.]. Dying well? : a colloquy on
euthanasia & assisted suicide: articles. Briarcliff Manor, NY (255 Elm Rd., Briarcliff Manor 10510): Hastings Center, 1992.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .D94
Behuniak, Susan M., et al. Physician-assisted suicide : the anatomy of a
constitutional law issue.
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2003.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF 3827.E87 B44 2003
DeSimone, Cathleen. Death on demand: physician-assisted suicide
in the United States: a legal research pathfinder. Buffalo, N.Y.: W.S. Hein, 1996.
LOCATION: Reference
CALL NO.: KF241.E84 D47
Euthanasia.
Strasbourg : Council of Europe, 2003-
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .E785 2003
Foley, Kathleen, et al., eds.
The case against assisted suicide : for the
right to end-of-life care. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .C355 2002
Haley, Kathleen, and Melinda Lee. The Oregon Death with Dignity
Act: a guidebook for health care providers. [Portland, Ore. : Center for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University, 1998].
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KFO2767.R53 O73 1998
Hendin, Herbert. Seduced by death : doctors, patients, and the
Dutch cure, 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., c1997.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .H46
Humphry, Derek. Lawful exit: the limits of freedom for help in
dying. Junction City, OR : Norris Lane Press, 1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .H85
Keown, John.
Euthanasia, ethics, and public policy : an
argument against legislation. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .K465 2002
Kevorkian, Jack. Prescription--medicide: the goodness of
planned death, 1st ed. Buffalo, NY : Prometheus Books, c1991.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .K48
Palmer, Larry I.
Endings and beginnings : law, medicine, and
society in assisted life and death. Westport, Conn.
: Praeger, 2000
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 P35 2000
Schneider, Carl E., ed. Law at the end of life : the Supreme Court
and assisted suicide.
Ann
Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 L39 2000
Smith, Wesley J. Forced exit : the slippery slope from assisted
suicide to legalized murder, 1st ed. New York : Times Books, c1997.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .S64
Snyder, Lois, et al., eds.
Assisted suicide : finding common ground.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .A855 2002
Somerville, Margaret. Death talk : the case against euthanasia and
physician-assisted suicide.
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .S65 2001
Urofsky, Melvin I. Lethal judgments : assisted suicide and
American law. Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c2000.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 U755 2000
Weir, Robert F., ed. Physician-assisted suicide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, c1997.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .P49
Yount, Lisa.
Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.
New
York : Facts On File, 2000.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: R726 .Y673 2000
B. Videos
Michigan v. Kevorkian: the trial of Dr. Death. New York, N.Y.: Courtroom Television Network,
1995, c1994.
LOCATION: Reserve
CALL NO.: KF228.M52 M52 1994
United States.
Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution. Assisted
suicide : House Committee. [Washington, DC]: C-SPAN; [West Lafayette, Ind.]: Purdue University Public Affairs Video Archives [distributor], [1996]
LOCATION: Reserve
CALL NO.: KF3827.E87 A87
C. Internet
Resources
[NOTE: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some
of the sites noted throughout this research guide may no longer exist under the
addresses provided. To locate changed addresses, search for the page title
using an Internet search engine such as Google.com. AltaVista.com or HotBot.com.]
Compassion & Choices
http://www.compassionandchoices.org/
Compassion & Choices, the successor organization to the Hemlock
Society, is a national organization which provides information, counseling, and
support to terminally-ill individuals, and advocates for changes in laws
regarding pain management, advance directives and in favor of physician-assisted
suicide. Its web site includes links to court cases, proposed legislation and
other legal advocacy materials.
Euthanasia World Directory
http://www.finalexit.org/
Compiled by the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Organization (ERGO!),
organized by Derek Humphry, a founder of the Hemlock Society. Among the
resources on this page are links to information on law around the world
regarding assisted-suicide and euthanasia, proposed legislation, Supreme Court
cases, a bibliography of books about euthanasia, recent news, and writings by
Derek Humphry.
Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia
http://mysite.verizon.net/cureltd/index.html
This organization opposes euthanasia. Its web site provides links to
articles written from this perspective.
IV. ORGAN DONATION
A. Printed Resources
Annas, George J. The rights of patients : the authoritative
ACLU guide to the rights of patients. Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2004
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3823 .A96 2004
Epstein, Richard Allen. Organ transplantation : or, altruism
run amuck. Chicago, Ill.: Law School, University of Chicago; Buffalo , N.Y.: Available from W.S. Hein, c1993.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RD120.7 E67
Palmer, Jr., Louis J. Organ transplants from executed prisoners :
an argument for the creation of death sentence organ removal statutes.
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c1999.
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.D66 P35 1999
Rozovsky, F. A. Consent to treatment : a practical guide. Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen, c2000-
LOCATION: 4th Floor
CALL NO.: KF3827.I5 R69 2000
Spielman, Bethany, ed. Organ and tissue donation: ethical,
legal, and policy issues. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University
Press, c1996.
LOCATION: 3rd Floor
CALL NO.: RD129.5 .O736
B. Internet
Resources
[NOTE: Internet site addresses change frequently. Accordingly, some
of the sites noted throughout this research guide may no longer exist under the
addresses provided. To locate changed addresses, search for the page title
using an Internet search engine such as Altavista.com, Google.com or HotBot.com.]
Medline Plus : Organ Donation
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/organdonation.html
This website, from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the
National Institutes of Health, offers links to a variety of news sources and
government websites with information about organ donation and transplantation.
Organ Donation
http://www.organdonor.gov/
Compiled by the Federal government, this site provides links to
various organizations and agencies concerned with organ donation.
United Network for Organ Sharing
http://www.unos.org/
This website provides links to medical, legal and policy information
about all types of organ transplantation and donation, as well as a collection
of data regarding the number of donors, transplants and persons waiting for
organ transplants in the United States.
TransWeb.org
www.transweb.org
This web site provides links to news articles on organ donation and
transplantation. It also provides a link titled "Reference Desk". The
"Reference Desk" link enables the user to access legal and
legislative information, as well as information on advocacy groups concerned
with organ donation.
American Liver Foundation
http://www.liverfoundation.org/
This site has links to information about organ transplants and donation.
National Kidney Foundation
http://www.kidney.org/
This site includes links to news stories (“News and Events” and then "The
Newsroom), some of which pertain to organ donation and transplants.
