Medical Law

Law, Immunization and the Right to Die

By Jennifer Hardes
Routledge October 2017

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ISBN-13
9781138570399
Publisher
Routledge
Publication
October 2017
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death. Drawing on key cases from the United Kingdom and Canada, the book focuses on the problematic paternalism of legal decisions that currently deny assisted dying and questions why the law fails to recognize what many describe as ‘compassionate motives’ for assisted death.

When cases are analyzed as discourses that are part of a larger socio-political logic of governance, judicial decisions, it is argued here, reveal themselves as relying on the construction of neoliberal fictions – fictions that are here elucidated here with reference to Michel Foucault’s theoretical insights on pastoral power and Roberto Esposito’s philosophical thesis on immunization.

Challenging the socio-political logic of neoliberalism, the issue of assisted dying goes beyond the predominant legal concern with protecting – or immunizing – individuals from one another, in favour of minimal interference. The book, then, calls for a new kind of politics: one that might affirm people and their finitude both more collectively, and more compassionately.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Immunized Life
Chapter 1. Vulnerable Persons and Relations of Enmity
Chapter 2. Inviolable Persons
Chapter 3. Security of Persons and of Society
Chapter 4. Freedom from Dependent Relations
Conclusion: Three Theses for an Affirmative Politics of Assisted Dying
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