Word: euthanasia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oddly, New York psychiatrists promptly condemned Greenfield, called him a murderer who had simply grown tired of caring for his imbecile son. Toward euthanasia, the medical profession is inclined to be kinder. Laymen were sympathetic, and even District Attorney Samuel John Foley, who will ask a Bronx grand jury for an indictment this week, admitted that he was reluctant to prosecute such "a sad case...
...Francis Potter, Dr. Tuttle's murder and attempted suicide were reasonable. He and a sizable group of other notable men believe so strongly in the right of an incurably diseased individual to have his life terminated gently that they have organized a National Society for the Legalization of Euthanasia. For purposes of their propaganda the Miami incident came in handy, occurring as it did the very day after Dr. Potter first publicly announced his organization and revealed that its trustees included Dr. Clarence Cook Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer and of the American Birth...
...England there exists a Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society, which a year ago failed to get the House of Lords to pass a bill making mercy killing legal. Last February one of Dr. Potter's high-placed disciples, John H. Comstock of the Nebraska Legislature, failed to persuade that body to legalize the unorthodox procedure. Last week Dr. Potter promised that Mr. Comstock will try again this term. Other disciples promised to introduce similar bills in the Ohio and New York Legislatures and in Congress. If these bills become law, anyone who can get two disinterested doctors to convince...
...famed British surgeon; of shock following the death of his wife; in Leeds, England. International authority on cancer. Lord Moynihan twice achieved notoriety: in 1929 when he stated that German aviators dropped plague bacilli bombs on British forces during the War, again in 1935 when he organized the Voluntary Euthanasia Legalization Society in a crusade to legalize "mercy killings" of incurable patients by their physicians. Offered the honor of burying him in Westminster Abbey, Lord Moynihan's family refused, buried him near his wife in Leeds...
...medical society had an easy answer: the law forbade. Of three Buffalo clergymen of three different faiths, two expressed themselves in favor of euthanasia. In Washington, a U. S. Public Health surgeon declared that mercy killing was outlawed in this clause of the oath of Hippocrates: "If any shall ask of me a drug to produce death I will not give it nor will I suggest such counsel." In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Logan Clendening (The Human Body), who likes to pooh-pooh the fears of hypochondriacs, said the question was outside the medical profession's province. In Chicago...