| Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation Revised Edition Contributor(s): Keown, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107043204 ISBN-13: 9781107043206 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $126.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Medical Law & Legislation - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
| Dewey: 179.7 |
| LCCN: 2018021303 |
| Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.36 lbs) 558 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon lends support to the two 'slippery slope' arguments against legalisation, the 'empirical' and the 'logical'. The empirical argument challenges the feasibility of drafting and enforcing adequate safeguards against abuse and mistake; the logical argument shows that acceptance of the case for euthanasia in the case of suffering patients who request it logically involves acceptance of euthanasia for suffering patients who are unable to request it, such as infants and those with advanced dementia. |
Contributor Bio(s): Keown, John: - John Keown is a leading and widely-published authority on the law and ethics of medicine. Before being appointed to the Rose Kennedy Chair in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown, he taught medical law in the Faculty of Law at Cambridge. In 2015 he was made a Doctor of Civil Law by Oxford for his contribution to law and bioethics. A focus of his research, which has been cited by the Law Lords and by the US Supreme Court, has been the law and practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands. That research formed the centrepiece to the first edition of this work, which was widely acclaimed. |