Overview
- Examines the implications of nascent ethical, social, and technological developments on the justification of physician assisted suicide (PAS) and voluntary euthanasia (VE)
- Alters significantly the contours of debates on PAS and VE and stimulates renewed scholarly interest in these topics
- Provides perspectives from health care policy, procreative ethics, mental and psychiatric health ethics and justice
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine (LIME, volume 64)
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About this book
This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultation in connection with assisted dying, relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ-donation and developments in medical technology, and demonstrates the significance of experimental philosophy in assessing questions of assisted dying. This book is ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and health care ethics.
Reviews
“This book compiles information from the vast literature on euthanasia and elicits four general themes found in current and past arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia. … intended for scholars in disciplines contributing to the literature on physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, including medical professionals, ethicists, philosophers, theologians, and legal scholars. … a unique contribution to the field in that it provides a structure that scholars can use to review the literature addressing physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia.” (Tyler Zahrli, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2016)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Editors: Michael Cholbi, Jukka Varelius
Series Title: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22050-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37145-0Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-22050-5Published: 20 August 2015
Series ISSN: 1567-8008
Series E-ISSN: 2351-955X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 252
Topics: Ethics, Public Health, Health Psychology