Right to die versus sacredness of life / edited by Kalman J. Kaplan.

Printed simultaneously as a special issue of OMEGA: journal of death and dying, Vol. 40, no. 1, 1999-2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Who decides? : the connecting thread of euthanasia, eugenics, and doctor-assisted suicide / Kirk Cheylitz -- Hippocrates, Maimonides, and the doctor's responsibility / Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz -- Gender, pain, and doctor involvement : high school student attitudes toward doctor-assisted suicide / Kalman J. Kaplan and Eve Bratman -- Effect of the doctor on college students' attitudes toward physician-assisted suicide / Victor Wooddell and Kalman J. Kaplan -- Doctor assisted suicide : an analysis of public opinion of Michigan adults / Flint Lachenmeier, Kalman J. Kaplan, and Diana Caragacianu -- Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia : the pharmacist's perspective / Mark E. Schneiderhan -- Potential psychodynamic factors in physician-assisted suicide / Stephen H. Dinwiddie -- Psychosocial versus biomedical risk factors in Kevorkian's first forty-seven physician-assisted deaths / Kalman J. Kaplan ... [et al.] -- Gender and physician-assisted suicide : an analysis of the Kevorkian cases, 1990-1997 / Silvia Sara Canetto and Janet D. Hollenshead -- An update on the Kevorkian-Reding 93 physician-assisted deaths in Michigan : is Kevorkian a savior, serial-killer or suicidal martyr? / Kalman J. Kaplan ... [et al.] -- Dispensing death, desiring death : an exploration of medical roles and patient motivation during the period of legalized euthanasia in Australia / Annette Street and David W. Kissane -- "Dispensing death, desiring death" by Annette Street and David Kissane : a commentary / Phillip Nitschke -- Of euphemisms and euthanasia : the language games of the Nazi doctors and some implications for the modern euthanasia movement / C. Ben Mitchell -- Kevorkian, Martha Wichorek and us : a personal account / Kalman J. Kaplan and Mary Leonhardi -- Michigan versus Kevorkian / Kalman J. Kaplan and M. Catherine McKeon -- Physician, hate thyself : comments on the Kevorkian tapes / David Gutmann -- Looking death in the eye : another challenge from Doctor Kevorkian / Robert Kastenbaum.