Thaddeus Mason Pope

Articles on MAID by Professor Pope

Forthcoming

Assisted Dying in the United States, in LAW AND ASSISTED DYING RESEARCH HANDBOOK (Edward Elgar forthcoming 2024).

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING ch.12 (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business forthcoming 2025) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara) (semi-annual update).

Aid in Dying Legal Corner: Remote Witnessing of Written Request Forms, 2 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING (forthcoming 2024).

Patients with Dementia Using VSED to Qualify for MAID, JOURNAL OF AID IN DYING MEDICINE (forthcoming 2025).

2024

Medical Aid in Dying: More Accessible in More States, 332 JAMA (published online Sept. 11, 2024).

VSED Bridge to MAID: Spotlighting Better End-of-Life Options, 72 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY (forthcoming 2024) (with Lisa Brodoff).

Medical Aid in Dying to Avoid Late-Stage Dementia, 72(4) JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY 1216-1222 (2024) (with Lisa Brodoff).

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING ch.12 (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2024) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara) (semi-annual update).

Medical Aid in Dying: Time for Evidence-based Legislation, KEVINMD (Jan. 16, 2024).

2023

Ethical Issues Encountered in the Practice of Aid-in-Dying: A Survey of Healthcare Professionals, 1 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING 20-23 (2023) (with Yvette Vieira, Jean Abbott, Charles Miller).

Aid in Dying Legal Corner: Patients with Limited Ability to Communicate, 1 JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CLINICIANS ACADEMY ON MEDICAL AID IN DYING 120-129 (2023).

Top Ten New and Needed Expansions of U.S. Medical Aid in Dying, 23(11) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 89-91 (2023).

Medical Aid in Dying: Clinical Considerations, In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA. (November 2023) (with Lonny Shavelson and Margaret Battin), https://www.uptodate.com/contents/medical-aid-in-dying-clinical-considerations/print.

Medical Aid in Dying: Ethical and Legal Issues, In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA. (November 2023) (with Lonny Shavelson and Margaret Battin), https://www.uptodate.com/contents/medical-aid-in-dying-ethical-and-legal-issues.

Neurologic Diseases and Medical Aid in Dying: Aid-in-Dying Laws Create an Underclass of Patients Based on Disability, 23(9) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 5-15 (Sept. 2023) (with Lonny Shavelson, Margaret Battin, Alicia Ouellette, and Benzi Kluger).

Permit Assisted Self-Administration: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries on Neurologic Diseases and Medical Aid in Dying: Aid-in-Dying Laws Create an Underclass of Patients Based on Disability, 23(9) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS W9-W14 (Sept. 2023) (with Lonny Shavelson, Margaret Battin, Alicia Ouellette, and Benzi Kluger).

Hospice Nurse Ethics and Institutional Policies Toward Medical Aid in Dying, 123(6) AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NURSING 37-43 (June 2023) (with Jean Abbott, Jeanne Kerwin, Constance Holden, Margaret Pabst Battin, Charles Miller).

Your End-of-Life Options: Medical Aid in Dying May Allow You or Your Loved Ones to Take Steps to Avoid Unnecessary End-of-Life Suffering, 33(4) ABA EXPERIENCE MAGAZINE 12-15 (July/August 2023).

Physician Assisted Dying. In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA (2023) (with Lonny Shavelson & Peggy Battin).

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING ch.12 (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2023) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara).

2020 - 2022

Medical Aid in Dying and Dementia Directives, 4(2) CANADIAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 82-86 (2021).

Physician Assisted Dying. In: UpToDate, Post TW (Ed), UpToDate, Waltham, MA (2021) (with Tim Quill and Peggy Battin).

Jack Kevorkian, AMERICAN NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY (Oxford University Press 2021).

Medical Aid in Dying: Key Variations among U.S. State Laws, 14(1) JOURNAL OF HEALTH & LIFE SCIENCES LAW 25-59 (Oct. 2020).

THE RIGHT TO DIE: THE LAW OF END-OF-LIFE DECISIONMAKING ch.12 (Wolters Kluwer Law & Business 2020) (with Alan Meisel & Kathy L. Cerminara).

2009 - 2019

Medical Aid in Dying in Hawaii: Appropriate Safeguards or Unmanageable Obstacles? HEALTH AFFAIRS BLOG (August 2018) (with Mara Buchbinder).

Legal History of Medical Aid in Dying: Physician Assisted Death in U.S. Courts and Legislatures, 48(2) NEW MEXICO LAW REVIEW 267-301 (2018).

Safeguards, in PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED DEATH: SCANNING THE LANDSCAPE 5-2 to 5-4 (National Academies of Science Engineering & Medicine 2018).

Medical Aid in Dying: When Legal Safeguards Become Burdensome Obstacles, ASCO POST (Dec. 25, 2017).

Oregon Shows that Assisted Suicide Can Work Sensibly and Fairly, 15(2) FINAL EXIT NETWORK NEWSLETTER 7 (May 2016).

Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid-in-Dying, 19(3) JOURNAL OF PALLIATIVE MEDICINE 259-262 (2016) (with David Orentlicher & Ben Rich).

The Changing Legal Climate for Physician Aid-in-Dying, 311(11) JAMA 1107-08 (2014) (with David Orentlicher and Ben A. Rich).

Oregon Shows that Assisted Suicide Can Work Sensibly and Fairly, NEW YORK TIMES - ROOM FOR DEBATE, Oct. 7, 2014.

Legal Briefing: Medical Futility and Assisted Suicide, 20(3) J. CLINICAL ETHICS 274-86 (2009).

Pope, J Health & Life Sciences Law 2020

Pope - ABA EXPERIENCE MAG (July/August 2023)

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