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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Arguement Against Legislation 2nd Edition

Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Arguement Against Legislation 2nd Edition

Name: Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Arguement Against Legislation 2nd Edition
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107618336
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Author: John Keown
ISBN: 9781107618336

By John Keown

Cambridge University Press October 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781107618336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most controversial questions facing modern societies. Many people, moved by 'hard cases' reported by the mass media, support legalisation.

This unique book explains a powerful but misunderstood argument against legalisation: that, even if they were morally justified in 'hard cases', voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide resist effective legal control. For reasons both practical and logical, legalisation would initiate a slide down a 'slippery slope' to ending the lives of patients who did not make a free, informed request; who were not suffering unbearably, and for whom there were alternatives.

The book substantiates the argument that effective legal control is not feasible by drawing on the experience of three jurisdictions which have relaxed their laws: the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon.

Part I. Definitions:

1. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide

2. Intended v. foreseen life-shortening

Part II. The Ethical Debate: Human Life, Autonomy, Legal Hypocrisy, and the 'Slippery Slope'

3. The value of human life

4. The value of autonomy

5. Legal hypocrisy?

6. The slippery slope arguments

Part III. The Dutch Experience:

7. The guidelines

8. The first survey: the incidence of 'euthanasia'

9. Breach of the guidelines

10. The slide towards NVAE

11. The second survey

12. The Dutch in denial?

13. The Euthanasia Act and the Code of Practice

14. Effective control since 2002?

15. Continuing concerns

16. A right to physician-assisted suicide by stopping eating and drinking?

17. Assisted suicide for the elderly with 'completed lives'

Part IV. Belgium:

18. The Belgian Legislation

19. The lack of effective control

Part V. Australia:

20. The Northern Territory: ROTTI

Part VI. The United States:

21. The United States: Oregon and six other jurisdictions

22. The US Supreme Court: Glucksberg and Vacco

Part VII. Canada:

23. The Supreme Court of Canada: the Carter case

24. Canada's euthanasia legislation

25. Conclusion.

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