Susan M Behuniak: 2 books
A Caring Jurisprudence
Listening to Patients at the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 1999
In deciding the abortion and physician assisted suicide cases, a majority of the Justices of the United States Supreme Court drew on medical knowledge to inform their opinions while dismissing the distinctively different knowledge offered by patients. Following the legal norms derived from the ethic...
Physician-Assisted Suicide
The Anatomy of a Constitutional Law Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Whether competent, terminally ill patients have a right to die with the assistance of their physicians or whether state and national governments have legitimate interests in forbidding the exercise of this right are the central questions around which this book revolves. In either case, essential constitutional...