Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ417408
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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The "Debbie" Affair: How a Doctor's Letter Touched off a Controversy that Raised Many Questions but Provided Few Answers.
Wolinsky, Howard; Brune, Tom
Update on Law-Related Education, v14 n2 p7-11,56 Spr 1990
Discusses a euthanasia incident in which a doctor claimed, in a letter to the "Journal of the American Medical Association," to have given a fatal dose of morphine to a dying cancer patient. Debates the ethical issues involved in the journal's decision to print the letter, withholding the author's name. (DB)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Constitutional Law, Editors, Ethical Instruction, Ethics, Euthanasia, Freedom of Speech, Journalism, Law Related Education, Legal Problems, Mass Media Role, Medicine, Moral Issues, Scholarly Journals, Secondary Education, Social Studies, United States Government (Course)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers; Students; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: First Amendment
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