Publication of Papers on Assisted Suicide and Terminal Sedation

  1. Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD;
  2. Wayne A. Ury, MD;
  3. Judith C. Ahronheim, MD;
  4. Mark Siegler, MD;
  5. Leon Kass, MD, PhD;
  6. John Lantos, MD;
  7. Robert A. Burt, JD;
  8. Kathleen Foley, MD;
  9. Richard Payne, MD;
  10. Carlos Gomez, MD;
  11. Thomas J. Krizek, MD;
  12. Edmund D. Pellegrino, MD; and
  13. Russell K. Portenoy, MD
  1. Saint Vincents Hospital; New York, NY 10011 (Sulmasy, Ury, Ahronheim) University of Chicago; Chicago, IL 60637 (Siegler, Kass, Lantos) Yale University School of Law; New Haven, CT 06511 (Burt) Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; New York, NY 10021 (Foley, Payne) University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA 22908 (Gomez) University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 (Krizek) Georgetown University Medical Center; Washington, DC 20007 (Pellegrino) Beth Israel Hospital; New York, NY 10003 (Portenoy)

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