Euthanasia, ethics and public policy : an argument against legalisation / John Keown.
By: Keown, John [author.]
.Series: Cambridge bioethics and law: Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Edition: Second edition.Description: xxiii, 531 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107043206; 9781107618336.Note: Gift: Baroness Tyler of Enfield.Subject(s): Euthanasia | Euthanasia -- Law and legislation | Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects | Terminal care -- Law and legislation | Terminal care -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 179.7 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 179.7 KEO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Gift: Baroness Tyler. |
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| 179.7 FIN Death by appointment : a rational guide to the assisted dying debate / | 179.7 ILL "I'll see myself out, thank you" : | 179.7 KEN Euthanasia : the good death / | 179.7 KEO Euthanasia, ethics and public policy : | 179.7 LEW Assisted death in Europe and America : | 179.7 PAT The patient's wish to die : | 179.7 PRA Shaking hands with death / |
Previous edition: 2002.
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Part I. Definitions -- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Intended versus foreseen life-shortening -- Part II. The ethical debate: human life, autonomy, legal hypocrisy and the slippery slope -- The value of human lif e-- The value of autonomy -- Legal hypocrisy? - The slippery slope arguments -- Part III. The Dutch experience: controlling VAE? Condoning VAE? -- THe guidelines -- The fist survey: the incidence of euthanasia -- Breach of the guidelines -- The slide towards NVAE -- The second survey -- The Dutch in denial -- The Euthanasia Act and the Code of Practice -- Effective control since 2002? -- Continuing concerns -- A right to physician-assisted suicide by stopping eating and drinking? -- Assisted suicide for elderly with 'completed lives' -- Part IV. Belgium -- The Belgian legislation -- Belgium's lack of effective control -- Part V. Australia -- The Northern Territory -- Part VI. The United States -- The Oregon Model -- The US Supreme Court of Canada: Glucksberg and Quill -- Part VII. Canada -- The Supreme Court of Canada: Carter -- Canada's euthanasia legislation.
Gift: Baroness Tyler of Enfield.