Arguing Euthanasia Book
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Arguing Euthanasia

  • Author : Jonathan Moreno
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • File Size : 8,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 1995-10
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 262
  • ISBN 10 : 9780684807607
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The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar proposals on their ballots.

Euthanasia Ethics and Public Policy Book

Euthanasia Ethics and Public Policy

  • Author : John Keown
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 19,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2002-04-25
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 342
  • ISBN 10 : 0521009332
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Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if they were morally acceptable in certain 'hard cases', voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide could not be effectively controlled; society would slide down a 'slippery slope' to the killing of patients who did not make a free and informed request, or for whom palliative care would have offered an alternative. How cogent is this objection? This book provides the general reader (who need have no expertise in philosophy, law or medicine) with a lucid introduction to this central question in the debate, not least by reviewing the Dutch euthanasia experience. It will interest all in any country whether currently for or against legalisation, who wish to ensure that their opinions are better informed.

Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor s Decisions Book

Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor s Decisions

  • Author : Ole Hartling
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 19,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-03-25
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Pages : 216
  • ISBN 10 : 9781350186231
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Why do so many doctors have profound misgivings about the push to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide? Ole Hartling uses his background as a physician, university professor and former chairman of the Danish Council of Ethics to introduce new elements into what can often be understood as an all too simple debate. Alive to the case that assisted dying can be driven by an unattainable yearning for control, Hartling concentrates on two fundamental questions: whether the answer to suffering is to remove the sufferer, and whether self-determination in dying and death is an illusion. He draws on his own experience as a medical doctor to personalize the ethical arguments, share patients' narratives and make references to medical literature. Here is a sceptical stance towards euthanasia, one that is respectful to those who hold different opinions and well-informed about the details and nuances of different euthanasia practices. Written from a Scandinavian perspective, where respect for autonomy and high quality palliative care go hand in hand, Hartling's is a nuanced, valuable contribution to the arguments that surround a question doctors have faced since the birth of medicine. He shows us how the intentions of doing something good can sometimes lead to even greater dilemmas, opening us up to those situations where an inclination to end suffering by ending life is deeply conflicting both for the clinician and for any fellow human being.

Debating Euthanasia Book

Debating Euthanasia

  • Author : Emily Jackson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 17,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-12-02
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 200
  • ISBN 10 : 9781847317711
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In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate. Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose present fear of the dying process causes them overwhelming distress. John Keown argues that voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are gravely unethical and he defends their continued prohibition by law. He analyses the main arguments for relaxation of the law - including those which invoke the experience of jurisdictions which permit these practices - and finds them wanting. Relaxing the law would, he concludes, be both wrong in principle and dangerous in practice, not least for the dying, the disabled and the disadvantaged.

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Book

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

  • Author : Neil M. Gorsuch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • File Size : 11,9 Mb
  • Release Date : 2009-04-12
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 329
  • ISBN 10 : 9780691140971
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After assessing the strengths and weaknesses of arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia, Gorsuch builds a nuanced, novel, and powerful moral and legal argument against legalization, one based on a principle that, surprisingly, has largely been overlooked in the debate; the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable and that intentional killing is always wrong. At the same time, the argument Gorsuch develops leaves wide latitude for individual patient autonomy and the refusal of unwanted medical treatment and life-sustaining care, permitting intervention only in cases where an intention to kill is present.

Life s Dominion Book

Life s Dominion

  • Author : Ronald Dworkin
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • File Size : 20,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-05-11
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 288
  • ISBN 10 : 9780307787910
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Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and euthanasia. At the heart of Life's Dominion is Dworkin's inquest into why abortion and euthanasia provoke such controversy. Do these acts violate some fundamental "right to life"? Or are the objections against them based on the belief that human life is sacred? Combining incisive moral reasoning and close readings of indicidual court decisions with a majestic interpretation of the U.S. Constitution itself, Dworkin gives us a work that is absolutely essential for anyone who cares about the legal status of human life.

Death Talk Book

Death Talk

  • Author : Margaret A. Somerville
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • File Size : 10,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2001
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 455
  • ISBN 10 : 9780773522015
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"Argues that people who promote the legalization of euthanasia ignore the vast ethical, legal and social differences between euthanasia and natural death. Permitting euthanasia, Somerville demonstrates, would cause irreparable harm to respect for human life and society." --Cover.

Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide Book
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Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

  • Author : Gerald Dworkin
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • File Size : 14,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 1998-08-28
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Pages : 156
  • ISBN 10 : 0521587891
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A Cry for Help?

Euthanasia Book

Euthanasia

  • Author : Josef Kuře
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • File Size : 5,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2011-09-15
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 266
  • ISBN 10 : 9789533072609
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No one really wants to die, or do they? From classical times to our post-modern era of medical high tech, societies have struggled with the thorny issue of euthanasia, and what it entails. Who shall be entitled to a "good death" and in what form shall it arrive? This book provides the reader with insight and enlightenment on the medical, philosophical, social, cultural and existential aspects of "good death" amid our digitized, individualized and ageing society, hampered by rising health care costs but unchained from one standardized level of care.

A Good Death Book

A Good Death

  • Author : Rodney Syme
  • Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
  • File Size : 19,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2008-05-01
  • Genre: Family & Relationships
  • Pages : 320
  • ISBN 10 : 0522858961
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A Good Death is a candid and provocative account of the experiences of many terminally ill people Dr Rodney Syme has assisted to end their lives. Over the past thirty years Syme has challenged the law on voluntary euthanasia—at first clandestinely and now publicly—risking prosecution in doing so. He again risks prosecution for writing this book. A Good Death is a moving journey with those who came to Syme for help, and a meditation on what it means in our culture to confront death. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices he faces working within the grey areas of the law. In this important book, Rodney Syme argues for the end of the unofficial 'conspiracy' of silence within the medical profession and the decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia in Australia. Through Syme's determination to tell the stories of those who he has assisted to die with dignity, A Good Death also draws wider lessons of value for those who find themselves in a similar situation.

Physician assisted Death Book

Physician assisted Death

  • Author : L. W. Sumner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • File Size : 9,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2017
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 273
  • ISBN 10 : 9780190490188
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Physician-assisted death is now legal in six states, and is the subject of intense political and legal battles across the country. As our population ages, the debate continues. What are the main dividing lines in this debate? What are the principal ethical questions involved? Philosopher and ethicist L.W. Sumner equips readers with everything they need to know to take a reasoned and informed position on these and similar questions. He provides much-needed context by situating physician-assisted death within the wider framework of end-of-life care, and explains why the movement to legalize it now enjoys such strong public support by reviewing the movement's successes to date, beginning in Oregon in 1994 and now extending to twelve jurisdictions across three continents. By providing an overview of the main ethical and legal arguments on both sides, Sumner provides a clear and accessible explanation of why we have yet to resolve the controversy. Lastly, he consisiders the future political and judicial actions that are necessary for broader reform of end-of-life care. All those who care about how we handle end-of-life dilemmas will benefit from Sumner's deeply informed expertise on this important issue. -- Provided by publisher.

Death Talk Second Edition Book

Death Talk Second Edition

  • Author : Margaret Somerville
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • File Size : 10,5 Mb
  • Release Date : 2014-04
  • Genre: Medical
  • Pages : 471
  • ISBN 10 : 9780773589155
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Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death? There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk, Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through "death talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.

Dying Justice Book

Dying Justice

  • Author : Jocelyn Grant Downie
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • File Size : 7,6 Mb
  • Release Date : 2004-01-01
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 226
  • ISBN 10 : 0802037607
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In Dying Justice, Jocelyn Downie provides an up-to-date and comprehensive review of significant developments in the current legal status of assisted death in Canada.

The Right to Life and the Value of Life Book

The Right to Life and the Value of Life

  • Author : Jon Yorke
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • File Size : 11,7 Mb
  • Release Date : 2016-03-03
  • Genre: Law
  • Pages : 464
  • ISBN 10 : 9781317017745
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This groundbreaking book is the first collection to investigate the law, political science and ethical perspectives collectively in relation to the right and value of life. Its contributions from international roster of scholars are organized around five themes: a theoretical positioning of life and death; War, armed conflict and detention; Death as punishment; Medical parameters for ending life; and medical policies for the preservation of life. In studying this issue in its contemporary contexts of "right" and "value," the volume fills the current scholarly lacuna in the general subject of the orientations of life. It presents a much-needed examination of key issues in a broad practical and theoretical context, and holds broad appeal for scholars, researchers, and students occupied with issues of war, armed conflict, the death penalty, and various contemporary medico-legal scenarios.

Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor s Decisions Book

Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor s Decisions

  • Author : Ole Hartling
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • File Size : 16,8 Mb
  • Release Date : 2021-03-25
  • Genre: Philosophy
  • Pages : 216
  • ISBN 10 : 9781350186231
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Why do so many doctors have profound misgivings about the push to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide? Ole Hartling uses his background as a physician, university professor and former chairman of the Danish Council of Ethics to introduce new elements into what can often be understood as an all too simple debate. Alive to the case that assisted dying can be driven by an unattainable yearning for control, Hartling concentrates on two fundamental questions: whether the answer to suffering is to remove the sufferer, and whether self-determination in dying and death is an illusion. He draws on his own experience as a medical doctor to personalize the ethical arguments, share patients' narratives and make references to medical literature. Here is a sceptical stance towards euthanasia, one that is respectful to those who hold different opinions and well-informed about the details and nuances of different euthanasia practices. Written from a Scandinavian perspective, where respect for autonomy and high quality palliative care go hand in hand, Hartling's is a nuanced, valuable contribution to the arguments that surround a question doctors have faced since the birth of medicine. He shows us how the intentions of doing something good can sometimes lead to even greater dilemmas, opening us up to those situations where an inclination to end suffering by ending life is deeply conflicting both for the clinician and for any fellow human being.