Article: A merciless mercy. A MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By IAN DOWBIGGIN. Oxford University Press. 259 pp. $28.(Book Review)

Article: A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern ...
Nursing History Review;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America By Ian Dowbiggin (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 ... were the major influences on the early euthanasia movement in America. The emergence of eugenics ...

Article: Fed: Crick remains face of euthanasia movement
AAP General News (Australia);  June 19, 2004 ;     433 words ... ... Australia) 06-19-2004 Fed: Crick remains face of euthanasia movement By Janelle Miles and Alex Murdoch BRISBANE, June 19 AAP ... after her death, Nancy Crick remains the face of the euthanasia movement in Australia. Euthanasia advocates believe a police decision ...

Article: Qld: Memorial unveiled to hero of euthanasia ...
AAP General News (Australia);  May 28, 2003 ;     681 words ... ... 00-0000 Qld: Memorial unveiled to hero of euthanasia movement (Repeating, correcting literals) By Dale Paget ... describing her as a hero and martyr of the voluntary euthanasia movement in Australia . She challenged unjust laws by ...

Article: Euthanasia movement gains speed in Colombia.(World)
The Washington Times;  June 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...BOGOTA, Colombia - Unconscious and curled up in the fetal position, the 58-year-old Colombian woman was wasting away from a brain tumor. On the request of her son, the family doctor quietly closed the bedroom door, removed syringes and IV lines from his medical bag, and injected 20 milliliters of

Article: Changing the rules on dying: the Supreme Court decision will ...
U.S. News & World Report;  July 9, 1990 ;     700+ words ...At the head of government's most I contemplative branch, the Supreme Court is mostly insulated from waves of public opinion. Eventually, however, the Justices often hand down decisions that comport with the tenor of the times. So it is when the issue is dying. In an era of high-tech medicine, when

Article: Euthanasia in America - past, present, and future: a review of a ...
Michigan Law Review;  May 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By Ian Dowbiggin. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2003. Pp ... efforts to legalize physician-assisted death, Ian Dowbiggin's (4) A Merciful End and Wesley J. Smith ...

Article: Life unworthy of life.(A Concise History of Euthanasia)(Book ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  August 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... CONCISE HISTORY OF EUTHANASIA by IAN DOWBIGGIN Rowman and Littlefield, 176 pages, $22.95 To READ IAN DOWBIGGIN'S A Concise History of Euthanasia ... that launched the international euthanasia movement we see in our time: For every ...