Author : John Keown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 1997-06-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521586139
This book discusses thoroughly the major ethical, legal and clinical issues involved in the euthanasia debate.
Author : Jennifer M. Scherer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780847691678
Sensitive and high-profile public policy issues often benefit from being considered in comparative perspective. Here, euthanasia and the right to die are examined in the context of the social, legal, and religious settings of a wide range of countries. The authors employ public opinion data, where available, to illustrate the great disparity between approval of physician-assisted suicide and the general illegality of the practice. Ultimately, making and implementing laws to ensure a responsible right to die_as the U.S. has been struggling with in Oregon, Michigan, and elsewhere_will be informed by experiences in such places as the Netherlands, Australia, and the only country in the world where euthanasia is a clear-cut medical option: Colombia.
Author : John Keown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521009331
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.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 24,4 MB
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309042755
Clear guidelines on the proper care and use of laboratory animals are being sought by researchers and members of the many committees formed to oversee animal care at universities as well as the general public. This book provides a comprehensive overview of what we know about behavior, pain, and distress in laboratory animals. The volume explores: Stressors in the laboratory and the animal behaviors they cause, including in-depth discussions of the physiology of pain and distress and the animal's ecological relationship to the laboratory as an environment. A review of euthanasia of lab animals-exploring the decision, the methods, and the emotional effects on technicians. Also included is a highly practical, extensive listing, by species, of dosages and side effects of anesthetics, analgesics, and tranquilizers.
Author : Stephen W. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107005388
Stephen W. Smith explores the legal and ethical issues involved in end-of-life decision making.
Author : Shaun D. Pattinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 1317612795
Is it lawful for a doctor to give a patient life-shortening pain relief? Can treatment be lawfully provided to a child under 16 on the basis of her consent alone? Is it lawful to remove food and water provided by tube to a patient in a vegetative state? Is a woman’s refusal of a caesarean section recommended for the benefit of the fetus legally decisive? These questions were central to the four focal cases revisited in this book. This book revisits nine landmark cases. For each, a new leading judgment is attributed to an imagined judge, Athena, who operates within the constraints of the legal system of England and Wales. Her judgments accord with an innovative legal theory, referred to as ‘modified law as integrity’, and are linked as a line of precedent. The result is a re-spinning of extant judicial threads into a web of legal principles with a greater claim to coherence and defensibility than those in the original cases. The book will be of great interest to scholars and students of medical law, criminal law, bioethics, legal theory and moral philosophy.
Author : Alan Meisel
Publisher : Wolters Kluwer
Page : 2023 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0735546657
The Right to Die, Third Edition analyzes the statutory and case law
Author : David N. Weisstub
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 42,32 MB
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9401596824
Decisions at the End of Life is the last volume in a trilogy on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines examine some of the most emotive topics in the study of aging: assessing quality of life, improving end-of-life care, palliative care, euthanasia, and consent to research.
Author : Henry Friedlander
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 29,70 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 080786160X
Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on the handicapped and the Final Solution, Friedlander shows how the legal restrictions and exclusionary policies of the 1930s, including mass sterilization, led to mass murder during the war. He also makes clear that the killing centers where the handicapped were gassed and cremated served as the models for the extermination camps. Based on extensive archival research, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, and the nature of popular opposition.
Author : John Harris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2006-12-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1134954212
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
