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Dying right :The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's assisted suicide law.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dying right :
Reminder of title:	The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's assisted suicide law.
Author:	Hillyard, Daniel Patrick.
Description:	369 p.
Notes:	Chair: John Dombrink.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-01, Section: A, page: 0261.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-01A.
Subject:	Sociology, Social Structure and Development.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9917146
ISBN:	0599160330

Dying right :The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's assisted suicide law.
Hillyard, Daniel Patrick.

Dying right :The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's assisted suicide law.[electronic resource] - 369 p.

Chair: John Dombrink.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 1999.

This dissertation examines how and why assisted suicide laws are being contested. The empirical focus is on the success of the death with dignity reform movement in Oregon. In Oregon, reformers persuaded a majority of voters to pass a unique law. The law, known as the Oregon Death With Dignity Act (ODDA), is unique because under certain narrow circumstances—terminal illness being the primary one—it explicitly legalizes physician prescriptions for drugs procured for use in suicide. The analytical focus of this dissertation is on the role of social agency in law and morality contests, specifically the legal and moral contestations over passage of the ODDA. Set within the broader history of the modern death with dignity movement—including failed efforts to pass similar laws in Washington and California, and two claims rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court—this dissertation describes the political conduciveness of the Oregon electorate to death with dignity reform, the mobilization of proponent and opponent campaigns, the framing of issues within the opposing campaigns, and campaign planning and execution of strategies and counterstrategies. The roles of public opinion, organized medicine, organized religion, and key activists and their organizational bases are described in great detail. These data about law and morality contests over where to draw the line between killing and non-killing are analyzed for claims about (1) safeguarding choice, (2) protecting against harm, and (3) situation-specific ambivalence over the “proper” balance between the first and second claims—choice and harm. The analysis of “harm” is further analyzed for claims about (1) harms attributed to the prohibition against assisted suicide, and (2) the potential harms of legalizing assisted suicide. Similarities in the history of abortion reform are examined and compared to develop empirical questions about the triangle of interactions among patients, physicians, and state authorities in end-of-life decisions about death. These questions and the processes of problem definition, movement mobilization, and symbolic politics that are detailed in the data are discussed for their potential to explore how and why assisted suicide laws are being contested.

ISBN: 0599160330Subjects--Topical Terms:

212432
Sociology, Social Structure and Development.

Dying right :The death with dignity movement and the reform of Oregon's assisted suicide law.
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