Anna Wilde, Sandra van der Laan, Devaleena Kundu, Chao Fang, Dan O'Brien, Hajar Ghorbani, Johanna Sumiala, Lindsay Udall, Renske Visser, Lee Moerman...
Essential reading on assisted dying, blending ethical debate with practical guidance. Assisted dying is one of contemporary society’s most pressing and divisive social issues. Should terminally ill people in pain be allowed to choos...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009649971)
Investigating the problem of disability discrimination at the margins of life and death, Tony Bogdanoski draws on diverse materials, including international human rights law, UN monitoring reports, and chiefly US, UK and Canadian laws to explore how...Loe edasi...
Seeking a new purpose, Swiss widower Ruedi signs up to work with Depart, an assisted dying organisation. He is assigned as a companion to Margrit: stuck in a care home with poor health weighing down on her, she has decided its time to go. Yet when s...Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative perspective on the critical distinction between acts and omissions in criminal law, a distinction that runs like a defining thread through all types of criminal offenses. While any act that positively causes a prohibit...Loe edasi...
This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death. Many books have been published about p...Loe edasi...
A practical book using ethical paradigms to understand contemporary challenges in suicide research, practices, and policies. Covering topics like medical assistance in dying, helpline rescue policies and suicide promotion over the internet, it is ess...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, i...Loe edasi...
In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031300011)
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 operati...Loe edasi...
“Can I choose to die?” As the number of requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide continues to rise, human rights law faces a new conflict: the right to die vs. the right to life… The right to die or, in other words, ‘the righ...Loe edasi...
This book analyses assisted death in the philosophical context of biopolitics, searching for the form of resistance which would not produce bare life and would not exclude marginalized social groups....Loe edasi...
Many books have been published about physician-assisted death. This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of that subject, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative ca...Loe edasi...
In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantati...Loe edasi...
Sari: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031045158)
“Can I choose to die?” As the number of requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide continues to rise, human rights law faces a new conflict: the right to die vs. the right to life… The right to die or, in other words, ‘the righ...Loe edasi...
A funeral celebrants story about how celebrating death, and creating personalised space for grief, can enrich lives and give meaning to death.When journalist Tom Morton suffered a heart attack in 2015, his close encounter with death l...Loe edasi...
This is a book about a controversial issuewhether doctors should be licensed by law to supply lethal drugs to terminally ill patients. It is written primarily for those who want to find a path through the thickets of a subject that transcends many f...Loe edasi...
This book analyses assisted death in the philosophical context of biopolitics, searching for the form of resistance which would not produce bare life and would not exclude marginalized social groups....Loe edasi...
This is a book about a controversial issuewhether doctors should be licensed by law to supply lethal drugs to terminally ill patients. It is written primarily for those who want to find a path through the thickets of a subject that transcends many f...Loe edasi...
A SUNDAY TIMES, NEW STATESMAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Immensely powerful . . . her investigation of this terrible illness is sensitive and compelling Sunday Times After her own fathers death from dementia, the wr...Loe edasi...
The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and within gerontology. Bringing together a range of scholars engaged in policy associated wit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2019, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198825456)
This monograph explores the phenomenon of suicide tourism: where people travel to other countries to receive assistance in committing suicide because their national laws do not permit such a procedure. Freedom of movement granted by international l...Loe edasi...
This book explores the judicial treatment of suicides in early modern Sweden, with a focus on the criminal investigation and selective treatment of suicides in the lower courts in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Riikka Miettin...Loe edasi...
This volume, published as a special issue from OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying presents a number of theoretical and empirical articles on the topic of euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and suicide. We have examined the first extended data a...Loe edasi...
Written for students and researchers in legal, medical and social ethics, the authors examine evidence on euthanasia from Belgium, one of only five countries where it is legal. A valuable contribution to the international debate about assisted dying,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Nov-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319987729)
This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. I...Loe edasi...
The book explains to the reader (general or specialist) the powerful slippery slope arguments against legalising assisted dying. Drawing on the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon, it shows that assisted dying cann...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107043206)
The book explains to the reader (general or specialist) the powerful slippery slope arguments against legalising assisted dying. Drawing on the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon, it shows that assisted dying cann...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN-13: 9780525436614)
A comprehensive, readable analysis of the key issues of the Black Lives Matter movement, this thought-provoking and compelling anthology features essays by some of the nation’s most influential and respected criminal justice experts and l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847929389)
Two expert thinkers tackle one of the most difficult and divisive issues of our times: assisted dying Brenda Hale is a superhero SHAMI CHAKRABARTI Rowan Williams is brilliant and profound JONATHAN SACKS As pressure grows to l...Loe edasi...
Essential reading on assisted dying, blending ethical debate with practical guidance. Assisted dying is one of contemporary society’s most pressing and divisive social issues. Should terminally ill people in pain be allowed to choos...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jan-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009649971)
Investigating the problem of disability discrimination at the margins of life and death, Tony Bogdanoski draws on diverse materials, including international human rights law, UN monitoring reports, and chiefly US, UK and Canadian laws to explore how...Loe edasi...
Seeking a new purpose, Swiss widower Ruedi signs up to work with Depart, an assisted dying organisation. He is assigned as a companion to Margrit: stuck in a care home with poor health weighing down on her, she has decided its time to go. Yet when s...Loe edasi...
A beautiful clothbound edition of Sir Terry Pratchett’s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying forWith an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins‘Most men don’t fear death. T...Loe edasi...
Sari: Research Handbooks in Health and Medical Law series
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781802204346)
This unique Research Handbook examines voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws through the lens of regulatory theory. It sheds light on interdisciplinary perspectives and outlines policy debates around the revision and implementation of these laws....Loe edasi...
They choose Voluntary Assisted Dying because they want a good death and not a bad death. Because, dying, they want an end to their suffering, not its indefinite continuation and worsening.Richard FlanaganMute and frozen witnesses, we watched Death ta...Loe edasi...
Anna Wilde, Sandra van der Laan, Devaleena Kundu, Chao Fang, Dan O'Brien, Hajar Ghorbani, Johanna Sumiala, Lindsay Udall, Renske Visser, Lee Moerman...
Sari: Death and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529236668)
Institutions play a crucial role in shaping experiences of end-of-life care, dying, death, body disposal and bereavement. However, there has been little holistic or multidisciplinary research in this area, with studies typically focusing on indivi...Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative perspective on the critical distinction between acts and omissions in criminal law, a distinction that runs like a defining thread through all types of criminal offenses. While any act that positively causes a prohibit...Loe edasi...
This book offers an examination of physician-assisted death, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death. Many books have been published about p...Loe edasi...
A practical book using ethical paradigms to understand contemporary challenges in suicide research, practices, and policies. Covering topics like medical assistance in dying, helpline rescue policies and suicide promotion over the internet, it is ess...Loe edasi...
Die Smiling is about one man’s triumph. In choosing a good death. Nigel Casson is a successful businessman, running a scaffolding business – popular in the pub, the golf course, a loving husband and father. Clambering high on life. Then his words sta...Loe edasi...
This book analyses the political and public debates about euthanasia in Portugal. Utilising petitions submitted to Parliament, legislative bills, parliamentary debates, opinion articles in newspapers, and documents published by the Catholic Church, i...Loe edasi...
English summary: The Law of Death: The book establishes a new field of law: the doctrine of dying and death, legal thanatology. All areas of law are considered together and brought into conversation with other sciences. Its about the law against dea...Loe edasi...
In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantati...Loe edasi...
English summary: Voluntarium indirectum: The thesis examines the so-called Principle of Double Effect (PDE) based on the question whether it is permissible to cause the death of an innocent person if the death is the unintended side effect of an intr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jul-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031300011)
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 operati...Loe edasi...
“Can I choose to die?” As the number of requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide continues to rise, human rights law faces a new conflict: the right to die vs. the right to life… The right to die or, in other words, ‘the righ...Loe edasi...
This book analyses assisted death in the philosophical context of biopolitics, searching for the form of resistance which would not produce bare life and would not exclude marginalized social groups....Loe edasi...
A Senate committee investigation of Australias Northern Territory Rights of the Terminally Ill Act 1995, the first legislation in the world which allowed doctors to actively assist patients to die, found that for the vast majority of Indigenous Terri...Loe edasi...
Seneca believed that life is only a journey toward death and that one must rehearse for death throughout life. Here, he tells us how to practice for death, how to die well, and how to understand the role of a good death in a good life. He stresses...Loe edasi...
Many books have been published about physician-assisted death. This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of that subject, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative ca...Loe edasi...
In this book, Christian Erk examines the ethical (im)permissibility of killing human beings in general and of selected killings in particular, namely suicide, lethal selfdefence, abortion and euthanasia, as well as organ transplantati...Loe edasi...
Alan and Joanne marry in midlife and live a happily-ever-after existence until, at sixty-nine, Alan is diagnosed with a rare, fatal, neurodegenerative illness. As he becomes increasingly disabled and dependent on others, and decreasingly able to find...Loe edasi...
