Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 29 (1999)

List of Participants. Articles. Introduction: Not Treating and Treating to Hasten Death: Two Sides of the Same Coin? A. Shapira. I: Sanctity of Life, Death with Dignity and Patient Autonomy. `Sanctity' and `Quality' of Life: An Historical Review from a German Perspective; A. Eser. Death, Dying, and Dignity; D. Heyd. Patient Autonomy in Modern Jewish Law; D. Sinclair. II: Medical Ethos, Ambivalence and Discretion. Euthanasia and the Changing Ethos of Medicine; S.M. Glick. Research and the Place of Death in Modern Medicine; D. Callahan. `Medical Discretion' in the Patient-Physician Relationship; A. Eser. Active Euthanasia, Denial of Dignity and Medical Responsibility for Bystander Inaction; L. Sheleff. III: Constitutional, Statutory and Public Policy Dimensions. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: The Dutch Perspective; R.L.P. Berghmans. Paternalism and Autonomy in End-of-Life Decision-Making: The Israeli Normative Ambivalence; C. Shalev. Termination of Treatment, Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in German Constitutional Law; G. Robbers. The Legal Bounds of Physician Conduct Hastening Death in the USA; N.L. Cantor, G.C. Thomas. Deciding to Die - Law, Medicine and Ethics in Australia; L. Waller. Aid in Dying: Decision-Making From a Legal Perspective; H.-G. Koch. Special Supplement. The Israel Supreme Court and the Law of Belligerent Occupation: Demolitions and Sealing Off of Houses; Y. Dinstein.