Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues

PART 1 Context
1 Introduction
Ilora Finlay and Julian C. Hughes
2 Polling on assisted suicide: the misuse of public opinion
Andrew Hawkins
3 Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide: seven prominent but weak arguments for legalization
John Keown


PART 2 Global perspectives
4 Assisted dying: the evidence from abroad
Conall Preston
5 Making euthanasia legal in the Netherlands: implications for the doctor-patient relationship
Cees Hertogh
6 The Dutch experience: from the perspective of lifelong disability
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne and Leopold Curfs
7 The rapid expansion of euthanasia and assisted suicide: the view from Canada
Ramona Coelho and Leonie Herx
8 Assisted dying in Aotearoa New Zealand: a victory of politics over informed debate?
Sinead Donnelly, Peter Thirkell, John Kleinsman and Wendi Wicks
9 The Australian perspective
Frank Brennan, Adrian Dabscheck and Leeroy William


PART 3 Law
10 Read the question!
Robert Preston
11 Safeguards - what safeguards?
Robert Preston
12 Reviewing prosecution policy on assisted suicide and 'mercy killing' in England and Wales
Alexandra Mullock
13 Assisted dying - the capacity complexities
Alex Ruck Keene
14 A journey through the contested territory of assisted dying: how law can go wrong - and right
Richard Huxtable


PART 4 Medical and palliative care issues
15 Physician-assisted suicide for psychiatric disorders: pros and cons(equences) John Maher
16 Challenges in diagnosis and prognosis
Fiona MacCormick
17 Palliative care: need, provision and evidence
Katherine E. Sleeman and Lesley E. Williamson
18 Sedation at the end of Life
Katherine Frew and Paul Paes
19 Should assisted dying be part of mainstream health care?
Suzanne Ost and Nancy Preston
20 De-medicalization: why we should completely separate assisted dying from health care and what this would achieve
H. Lucy Thomas
21 The enigma of lethal drugs
Claud Regnard


PART 5 Safety and vulnerable groups
22 Disability - a duty to die?
Tanni Grey-Thompson and Flora Klintworth
23 People with intellectual disabilities and autistic people
Sheila Hollins and Alice Firth
24 Vulnerable lives - euthanasia in the newborn and paediatric populations
John Wyatt
25 Older people and those living with dementia
Julian C. Hughes
26 The euthanasia paradox - free choice or coercion?
John Maher


PART 6 Philosophical and ethical concepts
27 Autonomy and assisted suicide
Onora O'Neill
28 Dignity, quality of life and the care of the dying
Daniel P. Sulmasy
29 The imperative to prevent suicide and not to encourage or assist it
David Albert Jones
30 Instability of eligibility criteria for assisted death and its implications Scott
Y.H. Kim


PART 7 Faith and no faith
31 The place of religion in the public debate about assisted suicide
Nigel Biggar
32 Assisted suicide: an Islamic perspective
Abdul-Azim Ahmed
33 Assisted dying: a Jewish perspective
Alexandra Wright
34 The Humanist case against assisted suicide and euthanasia
Kevin Yuill

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• Serviços sociais e de bem-estar, criminologia

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