ArticleAmerican journal of public health2018
Access to Aid-in-Dying in the United States: Shifting the Debate From Rights to Justice.
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- Interdisciplinary US Hospice Clinician Presence Throughout the Medical Aid in Dying Procedure.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2026Article
- Examining Public-Facing Hospice Medical Aid in Dying Participation Policies in Legalizing U.S. Jurisdictions.Journal of palliative medicine · 2026Article
- Characterizing Interdisciplinary U.S. Hospice Clinician Presence During Patient Self-Administration of Medical Aid in Dying Medication.Journal of palliative medicine · 2026Article
- Knowledge of and Preferences for Medical Aid in Dying.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Conscience-Based Barriers to Medical Aid in Dying: A Survey of Colorado Physicians.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
- In Defense of "Physician-Assisted Suicide": Toward (and Back to) a Transparent, Destigmatizing Debate.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2024Article
- "The Razor's Edge of Timing:" A Phenomenological Analysis of Decision-Making Processes Surrounding Medical Aid in Dying.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Physicians' Attitudes and Experiences with Medical Aid in Dying in Colorado: a "Hidden Population" Survey.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Article
- Protecting Practitioners in Stressed Systems: Translational Bioethics and the COVID-19 Pandemic.Perspectives in biology and medicine · 2022Article
- The Relationship of Palliative Care With Assisted Dying Where Assisted Dying is Lawful: A Systematic Scoping Review of the Literature.Journal of pain and symptom management · 2020Article
- Expanded definitions of the 'good death'? Race, ethnicity and medical aid in dying.Sociology of health & illness · 2019Article
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Abstract
Much of the literature on aid-in-dying (AID) has drawn heavily on rights-based ethical and legal frameworks that emphasize patients' rights of self-determination in end-of-life decision-making. Less attention has focused on how terminally ill people actually experience such putative rights once they are legally authorized. This analytic essay draws on findings from the Vermont Study on Aid-in-Dying, an ethnographic study of the implementation of AID in Vermont (2015-2017). First, I show that terminally ill people can face a range of barriers to accessing AID in permissive jurisdictions, and that access to AID is mediated by various inequalities endemic to US health care, as well as some that are unique to AID. I then build on these findings to examine the utility of the concept of justice for public health scholarship on AID. By integrating empirical, ethical, and policy analysis, I reframe rights-based frameworks that emphasize the role of individual choice and decision-making at the end of life. In doing so, I draw attention to health care justice as a neglected issue in public health perspectives on AID.
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