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1/11/09 Interview 2

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Part 2: Difficult Decisions In Health Care. End of life issues, specifically self determination, will be discussed by Dr. Gregory Eastwood, bioethicist at Upstate, and Patricia Knox, director of the Palliative Care program at Upstate.

Health Information Center Resources

Books:

• Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, artificial feeding, comfort care, and the patient with a life-threatening illness. By Hank Dunn. VA : A & A Pub., 2005. Also available online from A & A Publishers.
• Final Exit: The practicalities of self-deliverance and assisted suicide for the dying. By Derek Humphry. Hemlock Society. 3rd Edition. 2002.
• Forced Exit: Euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the new duty to die. By Wesley J. Smith. Encounter Books, 2006.

Books available through bookstores and libraries, including the Health Information Center and Amazon.com.

Other:

• Assisted Suicide, from the Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO).
• Compassion & Choices, formerly the Hemlock Society website.
• Euthanasia in the Netherlands, from the Remmelink Report.
• Third Remmelink Report
• Declaration on Euthanasia. Prepared by the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
• Hippocratic Oath, from the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.
• Hippocratic Oath - Modern Version
• Oath and Prayer of Maimonides

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