Euthanasia - Choice and Death
1st Edition
Published on 8. August 2019
158 pages
978-1-4744-7335-4 (ISBN)
Description
The pressing and universally relevant issue of euthanasia is debated in this volume. Euthanasia has become increasingly contentious as populations age, and medical and scientific advances continue to transform and extend life. Euthanasia - Choice and Death examines the key philosophical arguments that have underpinned thinking and practice up till now: the centrality of choice to our notion of the human being, and the challenge of changes to our concept of death in the face of medical, scientific and technological advances. Gail Tulloch develops a conception of dignity that does not depend on religious assumptions and can promote a broad ethical consensus in a liberal democracy. Examination of landmark cases and the approaches adopted by key countries - the U.S.A., the U.K., the Netherlands, and Australia - ground the book.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Series Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part One
- 1 Choice and Death
- Biological death
- Human death
- The good death
- Defining death
- The Harvard definition of brain death
- The brain
- Defining death: selective non-treatment of severely disabled newborns
- 2 Stark Choices
- Conceptual distinctions
- The slippery slope
- Voluntary/involuntary, active/passive euthanasia
- For and against euthanasia
- Resource allocation choices
- Two examples of decision procedures
- The individual and the state
- The man on the bridge
- A liberal society
- Part Two
- 3 Death and Dying in America
- The Philosophers' Brief
- The right to die
- Legal milestones
- The Oregon Death with Dignity Act
- The state and the individual revisited
- 4 Legal Disputes over Deathin England
- The Devlin doctrine
- The Tony Bland case
- Killing and letting die revisited
- Euthanasia in 1994 and 2004
- The Diane Pretty case
- 5 Legalising Euthanasia in The Netherlands
- The Dutch scene
- Early euthanasia cases
- The Rotterdam criteria
- The Dutch definition of euthanasia
- The Remmelink reports
- 6 A Legislative Experimentin Australia
- Withdrawal of treatment - John McEwan to Mrs V
- Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia
- Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- The Northern Territory experiment
- The Nancy Crick case 2002
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
- Index
