Death Dying Legal And Ethical Reviews

Author : Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1997-10-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309518253

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Approaching Death by Committee on Care at the End of Life,Institute of Medicine Pdf

When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."

Author : James M. Humber,Robert F. Almeder,Gregg A. Kasting
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994-02-04
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781592594481

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Physician-Assisted Death by James M. Humber,Robert F. Almeder,Gregg A. Kasting Pdf

Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.

Author : L. W. Sumner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199607983

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Assisted Death by L. W. Sumner Pdf

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 opposing views and legal precedents, and develops a model regulatory policy for assisted death.

Author : Derek B. M. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0433498692

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Assisted Death by Derek B. M. Ross Pdf

Author : Linda L. Emanuel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Assisted suicide
ISBN : 0674666542

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Regulating how We Die by Linda L. Emanuel Pdf

Addressing the subject of euthanasia, medical ethicist Dr. Linda Emanuel assembles testimony from leading experts to provide not only a clear account of the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia--but also historical, empirical, and legal perspectives on this complex and often heart-rending issue.

Author : Tom L. Beauchamp
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015034854029

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Intending Death by Tom L. Beauchamp Pdf

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. Explores issues from three perspectives--philosophical, clinical and political, legal and economic.

Author : K. Yuill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781137286307

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Assisted Suicide: The Liberal, Humanist Case Against Legalization by K. Yuill Pdf

This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.

Author : Derek B. M. Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Assisted suicide
ISBN : 0433498684

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Assisted Death by Derek B. M. Ross Pdf

"Physician-assisted dying, or "medical assistance in dying" [MAiD], as it is now known, was decriminalized in certain circumstances as a result of the Supreme Court of Canada's 2015 decision in Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) and implemented through Bill C-14 in 2016. This ... collection of 13 papers, developed out of a national academic symposium held in September 2017, examines the social, ethical and legal implications of the Carter I and Carter II decisions and offer ... reflections to the many perplexing questions currently being asked about MAiD."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Craig Paterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351575072

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Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by Craig Paterson Pdf

As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of end-of-life care and quality-of-life issues has grown more urgent.In this lucid and vigorous new book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the primary goods of persons, especially human life.Important issues that shape the moral quality of an action are explained and analysed: intention/foresight; action/omission; action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-innocence; and, person/non-person. Paterson defends the central normative proposition that 'it is always a serious moral wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human person, whether self or another, notwithstanding any further appeal to consequences or motive'.

Author : John Keown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521009332

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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy by John Keown Pdf

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 : Margaret A. Somerville
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780773522015

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Death Talk by Margaret A. Somerville Pdf

"Argues that people who promote the legalization of euthanasia ignore the vast ethical, legal and social differences between euthanasia and natural death. Permitting euthanasia, Somerville demonstrates, would cause irreparable harm to respect for human life and society." --Cover.

Author : Wesley J. Smith
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781594038563

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Culture of Death by Wesley J. Smith Pdf

When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 105-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy’s life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher’s temperature—which had eventually reached 107.6 degrees—subsided almost immediately. Soon afterward the boy regained consciousness and was learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley J. Smith recounts in his award-winning classic critique of the modern bioethics movement, Culture of Death. In this newly updated edition, Smith chronicles how the threats to the equality of human life have accelerated in recent years, from the proliferation of euthanasia and the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide firestorm, to the potential for “death panels” posed by Obamacare and the explosive Terri Schiavo controversy. Culture of Death reveals how more and more doctors have withdrawn from the Hippocratic Oath and how “bioethicists” influence policy by posing questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made “the new thanatology” his consuming interest.

Author : Herbert C. Northcott,Donna M. Wilson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 9781442634565

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Dying and Death in Canada, Third Edition by Herbert C. Northcott,Donna M. Wilson Pdf

"Dying and Death in Canada offers a comprehensive discussion of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The third edition has been thoroughly updated and several new topics have been added, including assisted suicide and active euthanasia, end of life care, emerging trends in funerary practices, and changing conceptualizations and interventions in the grieving process. A glossary has also been added along with end-of-chapter review questions and an appendix listing recent and seminal movies, television programs, documentary films, and other visual media sources dealing with dying and death. The new edition includes 22 black and white photos, 4 figures, and 3 tables."--

Author : Ole Hartling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350186231

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Euthanasia and the Ethics of a Doctor’s Decisions by Ole Hartling Pdf

Why do so many doctors have profound misgivings about the push to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide? Ole Hartling uses his background as a physician, university professor and former chairman of the Danish Council of Ethics to introduce new elements into what can often be understood as an all too simple debate. Alive to the case that assisted dying can be driven by an unattainable yearning for control, Hartling concentrates on two fundamental questions: whether the answer to suffering is to remove the sufferer, and whether self-determination in dying and death is an illusion. He draws on his own experience as a medical doctor to personalize the ethical arguments, share patients' narratives and make references to medical literature. Here is a sceptical stance towards euthanasia, one that is respectful to those who hold different opinions and well-informed about the details and nuances of different euthanasia practices. Written from a Scandinavian perspective, where respect for autonomy and high quality palliative care go hand in hand, Hartling's is a nuanced, valuable contribution to the arguments that surround a question doctors have faced since the birth of medicine. He shows us how the intentions of doing something good can sometimes lead to even greater dilemmas, opening us up to those situations where an inclination to end suffering by ending life is deeply conflicting both for the clinician and for any fellow human being.

Author : Michael Cholbi,Jukka Varelius
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031253157

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New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia by Michael Cholbi,Jukka Varelius Pdf

This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical professionals, and questions surrounding intention and causation, this book promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. The novel themes discussed in the revised edition include the role of markets, disability, gender, artificial intelligence, medical futility, race, and transhumanism. Ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and healthcare ethics, the book illustrates how social and technological developments will shape debates about assisted dying in the years to come.