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. This book will be of interest to researchers, a...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....Loe edasi...
Presents several theoretical and empirical articles on the topic of euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and suicide. This book includes some preliminary work on seven cases of physician-assisted suicides in Australia....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jul-2013, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780199974566)
The Hastings Centers 1987 Guidelines shaped the ethical and legal framework for treatment decision-making and end-of-life care in the U.S. This updated edition offers comprehensive practical guidance to professionals caring for seriously ill adults...Loe edasi...
This book will focus upon decisions to withhold or withdraw life-supporting treatment from incompetent patients. The book offers a critical examination of the latest developments with a view to developing a new framework for resolving disputes in th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Apr-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199589555)
The principle of the sanctity of life is key to the law governing medical practice and professional medical ethics. It is also widely misunderstood. This book clarifies the principle and considers how it influences the law governing abortion; test-...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jul-2011, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199607983)
L.W. Sumner explores the ethical and legal status of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and argues powerfully that these forms of assisted death can claim the same justification as other widely accepted end-of-life practices. He surveys the...Loe edasi...
This book includes recent legal developments and research and has been expanded to include a treatment of Belgium where euthanasia is now legal....Loe edasi...
Discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a secular natural law perspective. This book explains issues that shape the moral quality of an action: intention/foresight; action/omission; action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-inno...Loe edasi...
Argues that the law governing the ending of life in England and Wales is unclear, confused and contradictory. This book shows that the rules are in competition because the ethical principles underlying them are so diverse and conflicting. It covers...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2007, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199212873)
The question of whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalized is often treated as a universal, ethical question, transcending national boundaries and diverse legal systems. This book examines the impact of the choice of diverse legal r...Loe edasi...
This book examines legal responses to euthanasia and whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for it to be more readily available....Loe edasi...
Engaging the question of how to balance a patients sense about the right way to die, a physicians role as a healer, and the states interest in preventing killing, Dying Right captures the ethical, legal, moral and medical complexities...Loe edasi...
Should human beings be allowed to decide when to die? Should doctors be allowed to assist them? This book presents descriptions of euthanasia in practice in the Netherlands. It helps clinicians and other medical professionals better understand end-o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2000, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198298687)
Voluntary Euthanasia critically examines the criminal law prohibition of medically administered active voluntary euthanasia in common law jurisdictions and looks at the situation in practice. The evidence of patient demands and the willingness of so...Loe edasi...
By offering views from a range of disciplines, including bioethics, law, medicine, and religion this book draws attention to the variety of questions to be addressed....Loe edasi...
The key issue in all right-to-die matters is who decides? Who will decide whether life support should be terminated? Who will decide if a person is competent to make life and death decisions? This volume is a collection of writings and case studies...Loe edasi...
