Includes bibliographical references.

Physician responsibility for euthanasia / Peter Angelos -- Doctors must not kill / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- The quality of mercy : examination of the proposition "doctors must not kill" / Frederick R. Abrams -- Euthanasia in the Netherlands : brief historical review and present situation / Else Borst-Eilers -- What the law allows : legal aspects of euthanasia on request in the Netherlands / J.K.M. Gevers -- A physician's responsibility to help a patient die / Pieter V. Admiraal -- Active euthanasia : is mercy killing the killing of mercy? / D.J. Bakker -- Should we copy the Dutch? : the Netherland's practice of voluntary euthanasia as a model for the United States / Margaret Pabst Battin -- Impact of the New York State Do-Not-Resuscitate Law on clinical practice in a cancer research institution / The Ethics Group of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Should a terminally ill patient have the right to demand resuscitation? / Howard Brody -- Preserving the professional ethics : physicians are not obligated to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Nanette B. Hoffman -- The hidden issue in futility judgments : justifying turning the traditional logic of beneficence on its head / Laurence B. McCullough -- From "natural death" to "aid in dying" : reflections on the American judicial experience / Edward R. Grant and Clarke D. Forsythe -- Sovereignty, stewardship, and the self : religious perspectives on euthanasia / Courtney S. Campbell -- The historical and religious framework for euthanasia in the Netherlands / Titia H.C. Bueller -- Physician-assisted suicide and the suicide machine / Ronald F. White -- Federal policy regarding end-of-life decisions / Mitchell M. Handelsman.