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Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2005-04-04
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780104006504
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bill was published as HLB 4 session 2004-05 (ISBN 0108418839).
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords: Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2005-04-28
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780104006665
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Bill was published as HLB 4, session 2004-05 (ISBN 01084188390). This volume contains a selection of the 14,000 personal letters and other submissions received by the Committee with regards to their inquiry into the Bill.
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Lords
Publisher:
Published: 2005-11-10
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 9780108421655
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Bill to enable an adult who has capacity and who is suffering unbearably as a result of a terminal illness to receive medical assistance to die at his own considered and persistent request. Private members bill published on 11th November 2005
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
Publisher:
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9780108553790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Bill to enable competent adults who are terminally ill to be provided at their request with specified assistance to end their own life. Private members' bill published on 6 June 2014. Explanatory notes to the Bill, prepared by Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the Member in charge of the Bill, are published separately as HL Bill 6-EN (ISBN 9780108552427)
Author: John Keown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-04-25
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521009331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Whether the law should permit voluntary euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is one of the most vital questions facing all modern societies. Internationally, the main obstacle to legalisation has proved to be the objection that, even if they were morally acceptable in certain 'hard cases', voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide could not be effectively controlled; society would slide down a 'slippery slope' to the killing of patients who did not make a free and informed request, or for whom palliative care would have offered an alternative. How cogent is this objection? This book provides the general reader (who need have no expertise in philosophy, law or medicine) with a lucid introduction to this central question in the debate, not least by reviewing the Dutch euthanasia experience. It will interest all in any country whether currently for or against legalisation, who wish to ensure that their opinions are better informed.
Author: William A. Haseltine
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0815724160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Today Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes well ahead of many developed countries, including the United States. The results are all the more significant as Singapore spends less on healthcare than any other high-income country, both as measured by fraction of the Gross Domestic Product spent on health and by costs per person. Singapore achieves these results at less than one-fourth the cost of healthcare in the United States and about half that of Western European countries. Government leaders, presidents and prime ministers, finance ministers and ministers of health, policymakers in congress and parliament, public health officials responsible for healthcare systems planning, finance and operations, as well as those working on healthcare issues in universities and think-tanks should know how this system works to achieve affordable excellence."--Publisher's website.
Author: Ilora Finlay
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1527560023
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a book about a controversial issue—whether 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 fields of expertise. The authors have considerable experience of the matters about which they write, involving both research and hands-on medical care of dying people. They are not neutral about ‘assisted dying’: they are not convinced that the law is in need of change. However, the book employs an evidence-based approach and brings much-needed clarity to such complex issues as how the existing law works, how medical practice operates at the end of life, and what has been the experience of jurisdictions that have gone down the ‘assisted dying’ road. Above all, the book shows respect for the views of others who may judge the evidence differently.
Author: Stevie Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1000374807
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond. Assisted suicide is a contentious topic and one which has been the subject of judicial and academic debate internationally. The central objective of the book is to approach the question of the ban’s compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights afresh; freed from the constraints of the existing case law and its erroneous approach to the legal issues and selective reliance on empirical data. The book also examines the compatibility of the ban on assisted suicide with rights which have either been erroneously disregarded or not considered by either the domestic courts or the European Court of Human Rights. Having regard to human rights jurisprudence more broadly, including in the context of abortion, the research and analysis undertaken here demonstrates that the ban on assisted suicide violates the rights of a significant number of individuals to life, to freedom from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment and to private life. Such analysis does not depend on a strained or contrived approach to the rights at issue. Rather, the conclusions flow naturally from a coherent, logical application of the established principles governing those rights. While the focus of the book is the Suicide Act 1961, the conclusions reached have implications beyond England and Wales, including for the other devolved jurisdictions and international jurisdictions. Beyond courts and legislators, it will be a valuable resource for students of human rights and medical law, as well as medical and legal practitioners and academics working in human rights and end-of-life care.
Author: Timothy E. Quill
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2004-10-13
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780801880704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this volume, a distinguished group of physicians, ethicists, lawyers, and activists come together to present the case for the legalization of physician-assisted dying, for terminally ill patients who voluntarily request it. To counter the arguments and assumptions of those opposed to legalization of assisted suicide, the contributors examine ethical arguments concerning self-determination and the relief of suffering; analyze empirical data from Oregon and the Netherlands; describe their personal experiences as physicians, family members, and patients; assess the legal and ethical responsibilities of the physician; and discuss the role of pain, depression, faith, and dignity in this decision. Together, the essays in this volume present strong arguments for the ethical acceptance and legal recognition of the practice of physician-assisted dying as a last resort -- not as an alternative to excellent palliative care but as an important possibility for patients who seek it.
Author: Emily Jackson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-12-02
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1847317715
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate. Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose present fear of the dying process causes them overwhelming distress. John Keown argues that voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are gravely unethical and he defends their continued prohibition by law. He analyses the main arguments for relaxation of the law - including those which invoke the experience of jurisdictions which permit these practices - and finds them wanting. Relaxing the law would, he concludes, be both wrong in principle and dangerous in practice, not least for the dying, the disabled and the disadvantaged.
