Books

Maureen Harrison and Steve Gilbert, eds., Life, Death, and the Law. San Diego: Excellent Books, 1997. Provides edited text of court decisions in the cases of Karen Quinlan, Nancy Cruzan, and the Washington and New York right-to-die cases reviewed by the Supreme Court in 1997.

Albert R. Jonsen, Robert M. Veatch, and LeRoy Walters, eds., Source Book in Bioethics: A Documentary History. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1998. This book contains a section on the ethics of death and dying, including abridged text of the Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan court decisions.

John Keown, ed., Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical, and Legal Perspectives. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1995. This collection of eighteen essays provides pro and con discussions on such subjects as the ethics of euthanasia, whether patients in persistent vegetative states should be fed, legal and theological aspects of euthanasia, and euthanasia in the Netherlands.

Gregory E. Pence...