title: 'In the name of the people'--a Faustian paradox: the betrayal by physicians, lawyers, judges, academics and ethicists of the sovereign people's ultimate civil liberty.
authors.affiliation: University of West Los Angeles School of Law, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vanitzian
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Kopkin
mesh_terms: D024362:Advance Directive Adherence; D026686:Beneficence; D003657:Decision Making / Q000941:ethics; D005065:Euthanasia / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D038622:Internationality; D033222:Judicial Role; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008020:Life Support Care; D018447:Medical Futility; D026706:Paternalism; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010820:Physicians; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012297:Right to Die / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017236:Suicide, Assisted / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D013727:Terminal Care; D016312:Treatment Refusal; D014481:United States; D035761:Wedge Argument