Euthanasia, ethics and public policy : an argument against legalisation / John Keown, Georgetown University.
2018
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Title
Euthanasia, ethics and public policy : an argument against legalisation / John Keown, Georgetown University.
Edition
Second edition.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 531 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge bioethics and law.
Formatted Contents Note
Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
Intended v. foreseen life-shortening
The value of human life
The value of autonomy
Legal hypocrisy?
The slippery slope arguments
The guidelines
The first 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 the elderly with "completed lives"
The belgian legislation
Belgium's lack of effective control
The northern territory: rotti
The united states: oregon and six other jurisdictions
The us supreme court: glucksberg and vacco
The supreme court of canada : the carter case
Canada's euthanasia legislation
Conclusion.
Intended v. foreseen life-shortening
The value of human life
The value of autonomy
Legal hypocrisy?
The slippery slope arguments
The guidelines
The first 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 the elderly with "completed lives"
The belgian legislation
Belgium's lack of effective control
The northern territory: rotti
The united states: oregon and six other jurisdictions
The us supreme court: glucksberg and vacco
The supreme court of canada : the carter case
Canada's euthanasia legislation
Conclusion.
Summary
This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon lends support to the two 'slippery slope' arguments against legalisation, the 'empirical' and the 'logical'. The empirical argument challenges the feasibility of drafting and enforcing adequate safeguards against abuse and mistake; the logical argument shows that acceptance of the case for euthanasia in the case of suffering patients who request it logically involves acceptance of euthanasia for suffering patients who are unable to request it, such as infants and those with advanced dementia.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781107337909 ebook
9781107043206 hardback
9781107618336 paperback
9781107043206 hardback
9781107618336 paperback
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