Medical Creeds: Restatement Of The Oath Of Hippocrates, Care-Nurse Dot Com, 20 May 2001 http://www.care-nurse.com/creeds/hippo1.html A 1995 version of the hippocratic oath, originally written in the fifth century by a Greek physician, recognizes one God.
Background On End-Of-Life Issues, Choice In Dying, 4 April 2001 http://www.choices. org/issues.htm. A brief introduction and summary of the right to die issue, choices in dying and facts about end of life care.
Colby, Chris W. "Fort Meyers Man Indicted On Murder Charges In Apparent Mercy Killing." Naples Daily News 1 March 2001. Http://www.naplesnews.com/01/03/naples/a2632a.htm. This article reports on the circumstance surrounding a man murdering his ex wife outside the doctor's office, after receiving bad news.
Edwards, Miles J, and Susan W. Tolle, M.D.'s. "Disconnecting A Ventilator At The Request Of A Patient Who Know He Will Die: The Doctor's Anguish".
Connecticut Medicine
56.10 (1992): 557 - 560. A description of steps followed during a specific case when removing a case when removing a patient from life support and the feelings involved.
Euthanasia And Physcian Assisted Suicide: All Sides Of The Illness, Religious Tolerance, 20 May 2001 http://www.religioustolerance.org/euthanas.htm. Different religious views of all the sides of the issues Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide.
O'Malley, Martin and Owen Wood. " Cruel and Unusual: The Law and Latimer." CBC New Online. http://cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/latimer_robrert.html. This aritcles describes the situation in which a man kills his daughter by carbon monoxide poisoning and the events that proceeded.
Quill, Timothy E. "Death and Dignity: A Case of Individualized Decision Making".
New England Journal of Medicine
324.10 (1991): 691 - 694. An account of Diane's discovered illness, treatment up until her refusal of treatment that led to her death.
The Kevorkian Papers. 7 May 2001http://www.kevork.org> This site documents the truth about one of the most controversial figures of the late 20th century by revisiting interviews, articles and legal documents.
Young, Ernle W.D. "Physician Assisted Suicide: Where To Draw The Line?"
Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ehtics
9.03 (2000): 407 -410. This article touches on the central ethical and public policy issues, that divide those who oppose and those who support physician assisted dying.
Class Material
Albom, Mitch.
Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, And Life's Greatest Lesson
. New York: Doubleday, 1997. Mitch had the opportunity to reconnect with his college mentor. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of his life. Mitch visited Morrie every Tuesday like he did in his college days. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final lesson, how to live.