ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1

Annotated Bibliography on the Effects of Euthanasia

Isabel Bennigsdorf

The University of Texas at El Paso

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Annotated Bibliography

Stevens Jr., K. R. (2006). Emotional and Psychological Effects of Physician-Assisted Suicide

and Euthanasia on Participating Physicians. Issues in Law & Medicine, 21(3), 187-200.

This website provides information regarding emotional and psychological effects in

physician assisted suicide (PAS). PAS and the effects both are significant effects that

occur from euthanasia. They explain how a doctor is really affected due to the fact that

the deaths happen suddenly. Doctors are personally affected since euthanasia is

something that isnt necessarily used in medicine. They provide information stating

doctors will feel powerlessness or even isolated. With euthanasia involved

physicians will be hesitating to participate in assisted suicide. Another factor mentioned

is how it also depends on the relationships the doctors have with their patients, which

will also have a greater impact on how the doctor is affected by euthanasia use.

Price, D. (1997). Euthanasia, pain relief and double effect. Legal Studies,17(2), 323.

Doi:10.1111/]. 1748-121X. 1997.tb00410.x

In this article, they provide feedback that euthanasia can lead up to murder from laws. It

states that euthanasia is poorly developed and that other methods should be used. The

doctor explains how using this assisted suicide drug is morally wrong and can relate to

consequence effect Giving patients euthanasia is not justified and is a main factor for the

twistedness of it all. It informs us how the initial concerns of doctors shouldnt be to make

these types of decisions since they are involved in the medical law. These legal studies
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were initiated to see the overall effects of pain relieving treatments such as euthanasia and

the significance to the criminal laws.

Randall, F., & Downie, R. (2010). Assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia: role contradictions

for physicians. Clinical Medicine, 10(4), 323-325.

This article gives plenty of information regarding how doctors or physicians are involved

in the process of administering euthanasia. And if not administering it than prescribing in

to the patients. It argues how and what a doctor should and shouldnt do. They make sure

to explain how doctors should be concerned with the healthcare law as well as the oath

doctors take. It specifies how people have the right to do how and when they want but that

it shouldnt be a legal action that a doctor or physician should have to perform. Basically,

saying they shouldnt have to be the one to make the decision. It is stated that having

doctors or physicians be the main decision makers ends up involving several consequences

especially since when thinking of them you think of treatment or healthcare.

Van Der Maas, P. J., Van Delden, J. J., Pijnenborg, L., & Looman, C. W. (1991). Euthanasia and

other medical decisions concerning the end of life. Lancet (London, England), 338(8768),

669-674

In this journal article its a comparative study of where euthanasia is being increased. It

gave plenty of feedback and information about euthanasia particularly in the Netherlands.

They explained how the practice of PAS should definitely be brought up to the attention

of several people considering the study stated that these decisions being made were made

for medical practices. It was also mentioned that euthanasia used in the Netherlands,

physicians wouldnt say the patient died from the treatment but instead from natural
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death or other reasons. This study wasnt able to state a specific number of patients who

died with the use of euthanasia. As for the United States, they stated that besides the two

states who have it legal as of now, they stick to the non-treatment decisions.

Balk, D. (2006). A Review of: An Individual Scholars Sociological Perspective on the History

of Euthanasia in the United States. Death Studies, 30(6), 601.

This review article specifically emphasized how instead of dying naturally, they are now

using technology and medicine. Throughout the article the author gathers his information

to figure out the precise period in time when the process of euthanasia was being done.

Then the author begins to discuss how the euthanasia was done throughout the years and

who began to use the process much more heavily, and stating that how the process was

much more pain free and a way easier process to be done. He also states how physicians

and patients chose to go through with euthanasia because it was the easier was out. In this

article he also begins to compare how legal dosing and euthanasia are similar except

that legal dosing is legal. He states that they both contribute to doing the same thing.

Kha, M. A., Javaid, A., Sajjad, H., Ahmad, F., Khattack, A, Khan, N., & Adnan, M. A. (2015).

Clinicians approach to euthanasia in the province of Khyber pakhtunkhwah.

This article was figure out how much clinicians, physicians, and doctors knew about

euthanasia and the practices of it. They did a study of public and private hospitals and

began to administer questionnaires, to find out if they knew what was being done. These

questions consisted of factors that can happen after euthanasia and what they thought

about the legalization of it. In this study they stated that doctors explained why they

didnt believe in legalizing it, as well as not knowing that there was specific rules that
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had to be followed. With the results the acquired, still several clinicians, etc. believed no

one should be able to end someone elses life.

Ho, R., & Chantagul, N. (2015). Support for voluntary and nonvoluntary euthanasia: what roles

do conditions of suffering and the identity of the Terminally ill play? Omega-The Journal

Of Death and Dying (Famindale).

In this article, the study consisted of explaining when a person can receive euthanasia.

For a person to receive euthanasia, they must have one of the three conditions, pain,

debilitated nature of the body, or burden on the family. Euthanasia is also known as

mercy killing and is a painful death to patients who are terminally ill. In this article

they explained both sides of euthanasia and how opposing euthanasia could be since its a

morally wrong death. The study that was provided was also a small questionnaire to see

who supports voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia. With certain outcomes, also

discussing the three conditions of suffering, helps the study understand why the

individuals would support or not support this act.