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Physician-assisted death in perspective : assessing the Dutch experience
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ISBN: 1139539833 1107227755 1283521911 1139527029 9786613834362 1139525824 1139531689 0511843976 1139530496 1139528211 1107007569 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge, [UK] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it. Some of them have themselves practised euthanasia. The book will contribute to the world literature on physician-assisted death by providing a comprehensive examination of how euthanasia has been practised and how it has evolved in one specific national and cultural context. It will greatly advance the understanding of euthanasia among both advocates and opponents of the practice.


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Suicide tourism : understanding the legal, philosophical, and socio-political dimensions
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ISBN: 0191864234 0192559532 0192559540 Year: 2019 Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press,


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Die gesetzliche Regelung der aktiven ärztlichen Sterbehilfe des Königreichs der Niederlände - ein Modell für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland?
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ISBN: 3631372892 Year: 2001 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Lang


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Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada : Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives
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ISBN: 3031300025 3031300017 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program delivered voluntary euthanasia and assistance in suicide to over 30,000 Canadian residents, presently representing a 30% annual growth. Looking back on these first five years, the 30 Canadian scholars and clinicians contributing to this volume raise important issues and attempt to answer key questions that have arisen in regards to its operation and its stated objectives. This volume strikes the most appropriate balance between the autonomy of persons who seek medical assistance, versus the interests and protection of vulnerable persons. Finally, the book makes suggestions on how the program can presently be improved. It identifies gaps in knowledge about MAID’s operational program and its impact on individuals, families and society in order to stimulate the necessary research that is essential to the evolution of a healthy and well-balanced program. As a first, comprehensive examination of medically assisted deaths in Canada, this publication will be of great value to lay, professional, academic, political audiences both domestically and internationally, especially in jurisdictions that are examining their options of permitting assisted deaths.

Intending death : the ethics of assisted suicide and euthanasia.
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ISBN: 0131995553 Year: 1996 Publisher: Upper Saddle River Prentice Hall

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Addressing a sensitive contemporary controversy, this anthology presents current thinking of experts in the field of the ethics of assisted suicide and euthanasia - exploring "point blank" issues that law and public policy may have skirted or wished away. Death and Dying, Medical or Bio-Ethics, Introduction to Ethics. At the cutting-edge of one of the most sensitive contemporary controversies, this anthology presents the most current thinking of experts in the field of the ethics of assisted suicide and euthanasia - exploring point blank issues that law and public policy have often skirted or wished away.


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Giving death a helping hand : physician-assisted suicide and public policy. An international perspective
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ISBN: 1281205419 9786611205416 1402064969 1402064950 9400786883 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Dordrecht] : Springer,

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If it comes to choosing between methods of last resort for severely suffering, physician-assisted suicide will probably prove more acceptable as a method of last resort than active euthanasia both to patients, to legislators and to the general public. From the perspective of patients, physician-assisted suicide is a more unambiguous expression of the patient's autonomous will. From the legislator's perspective it seems less liable to misuse and abuse. And often the availability of assisted suicide, instead of shortening the life of a patient, has proved to prolong it. Public policy has begun to respond to this prospect. Notably in Switzerland and Germany, the attitudes of public bodies towards physician-assisted suicide are in a process of change, partly motivated by the wish to take the edge off the pressure for legalisation of active euthanasia. The present volume focuses on public policy issues related to physician-assisted suicide. It offers a detailed analysis of the current legal standing and practice of physician-assisted suicide in various countries and discusses the ethical principles underlying its legal and professional regulation. In addition, it contains a number of personal narratives by professionals who have for many years been involved in end-of-life issues.

Medically assisted death
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ISBN: 9780521706162 9780521880244 0521880246 0521706165 9781139167437 1107184282 9786611982294 0511464118 0511464851 051146178X 113916743X 1281982296 0511462530 0511463324 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Does a competent person suffering from a terminal illness or enduring an otherwise burdensome existence, who considers his life no longer of value but is incapable of ending it, have a right to be helped to die? Should someone for whom further medical treatment would be futile be allowed to die regardless of expressing a preference to be given all possible treatment? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this wide-ranging discussion of both the morality of medically assisted death and the justifiability of making certain instances legal. A case is offered in support of the moral and legal permissibility of specified instances of medically assisted death, along with responses to the main objections that have been levelled against it. The philosophical argument is bolstered by empirical evidence from The Netherlands and Oregon where voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are already legal.

Dying Justice
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ISBN: 1282023403 1442674148 9781442674141 9781282023406 0802037607 9780802037602 Year: 2006 Publisher: Toronto

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"The legal status of assisted death in Canada is in urgent need of clarification and reform. However, this process must be informed by a careful, thorough, and thoughtful analysis of the issues. 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. She then recasts the framework for analysis in terms of the nature of the decision for assisted death. Refusals of treatment and requests for assisted suicide and euthanasia, the author argues, should be respected if they are made voluntarily by informed and mentally competent individuals." "Downie proposes a system for Canada that is both less restrictive than the status quo with respect to assisted suicide and euthanasia and more restrictive with respect to the withholding and withdrawal of potentially life-sustaining treatment. On the basis of a thorough review of all of the major arguments made against permitting assisted suicide and euthanasia, Downie calls for a legislative regime that permits some assisted suicide and euthanasia, but also sets out strict criteria that must be met before refusals of treatment would be respected."--Jacket.

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