"Right to Die" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The right of the patient or the patient's representative to make decisions with regard to the patient's dying.
| Descriptor ID |
D012297
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.880.604.473.650.952 N03.706.437.650.750
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Right to Die".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Right to Die".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Right to Die" by people in this website by year, and whether "Right to Die" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Right to Die" by people in Profiles.
-
Why Physicians Should Oppose Assisted Suicide. JAMA. 2016 Jan 19; 315(3):247-8.
-
Dignity in end-of-life care: results of a national survey of U.S. physicians. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2012 Sep; 44(3):331-9.
-
Does compassion for a family justify providing futile CPR? J Perinatol. 2010 Dec; 30(12):770-2.
-
Development and validation of the Family Decision-Making Self-Efficacy Scale. Palliat Support Care. 2009 Sep; 7(3):315-21.
-
To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2008 Apr-May; 25(2):112-20.
-
Proportionality, terminal suffering and the restorative goals of medicine. Theor Med Bioeth. 2002; 23(4-5):321-37.
-
Managed care and managed death. Arch Intern Med. 1995 Jan 23; 155(2):133-6.
-
More talk, less paper: predicting the accuracy of substituted judgments. Am J Med. 1994 May; 96(5):432-8.
-
Withdrawal from dialysis: an ethical perspective. Kidney Int. 1988; 34(1988):124-35.