Termination of life-sustaining treatment

"Pathfinders" are guides to help you get started finding information on a topic. A St. Kate's Reference Librarian has written this guide to help you perform Library research for your structured controversy paper and presentation. It is not meant to be an exhaustive list of resources, but some places to begin your hunt.

Please stop or phone the Reference Desk (651-690-6652) if you have questions or need further assistance.

Contents:   Reference Works  | Finding Books  |  Journal Articles  |  Internet Sites

Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Appied Ethics   Ref. BJ 63 .A66 (1998)

        The entry on "Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders" may be helpful
       
Encyclopedia of Bioethics   Ref.  QH 332 .E52  (2004)

         See vol. 1, "Death & dying: euthanasia & sustaining life"

West's Encyclopedia of American Law

         Available online via CLICnet

Note: Please remember that Reference Books may not be taken from the Library

Finding Books

Use CLICnet to search for books and videos in the Library at St. Kate's and at other ACTC colleges. Use the "Request" feature to obtain items not at St. Kate's.

Search term:

Subject:  terminal care -- moral & ethical aspects
Subject: right to die

Finding Journal Articles

About off-campus access

1. Use EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and InfoTrac's Expanded Academic ASAP to look for journal articles, adding enough terms to limit the search to your topic. To find only academic journals, click before the box for "scholarly (peer reviewed) journals" or "refereed publications."

Search Term(s):   terminal care; right to die

2.  Use LexisNexis Academic to look for articles in major newspapers, including the New York Times and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Select the News category, then General News. (Instead of searching "previous six months," select option to search past two years.)

    Keyword:   life sustaining treatment

Internet Resources

Center for Biblical Bioethics -

The Center for Biblical Bioethics interprets biblical principles as they relate to major moral issues in modern medicine.

http://www.bfl.org/cbb/assisted_suicide.htm

Death With Dignity National Center -

The Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC) is an organization that has successfully proposed, passed, defended and helped implement a first-in-the nation law that allows terminally ill individuals meeting stringent safeguards, to hasten their own deaths.

http://www.dwd.org/community/resources.asp

Longwood University Library -

A collection of links discussing the termination of life-sustaining treatment.

http://www.longwood.edu/library/suic.htm