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Zain Khalid

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  • End-of-Life

    Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Approaching Uncertainty with Humility

    By Zain Khalid On May 22 this year, Zoraya Ter Beek, a 29-year-old woman from Netherlands, died by euthanasia on grounds of mental suffering. Zoraya had been diagnosed with chronic depression, borderline personality disorder, and…

    Assisted Death for Psychiatric Suffering: Approaching Uncertainty with Humility

  • Bioethics

    Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care

    By Zain Khalid October 10th marked the first anniversary of California’s Senate Bill 43 (SB 43), a major revision of the landmark Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 1967, a de-institutionalization era law designed to “end the inappropriate,…

    Rethinking Mental Health Reform: A case for reviving community-based care