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International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence

International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence

Author: White Ben P.; Lindy Willmott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108489775
Published In: December 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes – law reform perspectives – have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform aims to address this question by drawing on ten case studies of end-of-life law reform from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Written by leading end-of-life scholars, the book's chapters blend perspectives from law, medicine, bioethics and sociology to examine sustained reform efforts to permit assisted dying and change the law about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. Findings from this book shed light not only on changing end-of-life law, but provide insight more generally into how and why law reform succeeds in complex and controversial social policy areas.

1. End-of-life law reform: context and challenges

Ben P. White and Lindy Willmott

2. The path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and beyond: lessons about MAiD law reform from Canada

Jocelyn Downie and Kate Scallion

3. The extension of the Belgian Euthanasia law to minors in 2014

Kasper Raus, Luc Deliens and Kenneth Chambaere

4. The role of scientific evaluations of the Dutch termination of life on request and assisted suicide (Review Procedure) act: old law, new boundaries

Agnes van der Heide, Johan Legemaate, Hans van Delden and Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen

5. The challenging path to voluntary assisted dying law reform in Australia: Victoria as a successful case study

Lindy Willmott and Ben P. White

6. Should assisted dying require the consent of a high court judge?

Penney Lewis

7. Aid in dying in the United States: past, present and future

David Orentlicher

8. The medical regulator as law reformer: Québec's act respecting end-of-life care

Mona Gupta

9. Extrajudicial resolution of medical futility disputes: key factors in establishing and dismantling the Texas advance directives act

Thaddeus Mason Pope

10. How to change the law: challenging mandatory court hearings for people in vegetative and minimally conscious states

Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger

11. Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment and the relevance of patients' wishes: reforming the mental capacity act 2005

Emily Jackson

12. International perspectives on reforming end-of-life law

Ben P. White, Lindy Willmott, Jocelyn Downie, Penney Lewis, Celia Kitzinger, Jenny Kitzinger, Kenneth Chambaere, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Luc Deliens, Mona Gupta, Emily Jackson, Agnes van der Heide, Eliana Close, Katrine Del Villar and Jodhi Rutherford

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