Increasing enthusiasm for the controversial practice of physician-assisted suicide — when doctors give patients the tools to end their own lives — shines a spotlight on the perennial challenge of how to die well. Contemporary approaches to the art of dying must take into account the strengths and limitations of medicine today, the increasing use […]
Author Archives: Lydia S Dugdale
Lydia S. Dugdale is a physician and ethicist. She directs the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. She edited the book Dying in the Twenty-First Century (MIT Press, 2015) and is author of The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom (HarperOne, 2020).
