Regulating the end of life : death rights /: death rights. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sue Westwood.
• Editors: Westwood, Sue, 1957-
• Contents: 1. Introduction (Sue Westwood) Part 1. Law and Ethics 2. Legal change on assisted dying (Penney Lewis) 3. Assisted dying, ethics and the law: For, against, or somewhere in between? (Richard Huxtable) 4. Euthanasia as life-extension (Anthony Wrigley) 5. Unintended consequences of legal prohibitions on assisted dying (Amanda Ward and Scott Kennedy) Part 2. Morals and Values 6. The changing status of euthanasia and other forms of chosen death (Thomas Tierney) 7. Protection of human dignity and its application at the beginning and end of life (Samantha Halliday) 8. Assisted dying legislation in Australia: a values-based critique (Lindy Wilmott) 9. Palliatively supported voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: Moral disagreement (Isra Black and Ralf Jox) Part 3: Rights 10. European Convention on Human Rights, Article 2 (‘Right to Life’): A breach of the rights of those wanting to end their lives? (Nataly Papadopolou) 11. Laughing to death: Necrosocialities and right to die activism (Ari Gandsman) 12. Dying alone: Exercising a right or transgressing the rules? (Glenys Caswell) 13. The wish for a self-directed death in old age: reflections based on a Dutch case (Els Vanwijngaarden) Part 4: Embodied Choice 14. Embodied choice: Assisted dying and euthanasia contrasted with contraception and abortion in USA contexts (Dena Davis) 15. Capabilities, disability, and medical aid in dying in USA contexts (Christopher A. Riddle) 16. Embodiment, choice and control at the beginning and ending of life: Paradoxes and contradictions (Sue Westwood)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 344.04197; Right to die -- Law and legislation; Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects; Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation; Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects; Euthanasia -- Law and legislation; Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000439496; 9781000439465; 9780429329739
• Related ISBNs: 9780367333539
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