Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Herausgeber: Gastmans, Chris; Mackellar, Calum; Jones, David Albert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this book, a global panel of experts considers the international implications of legalised euthanasia based on experiences from Belgium.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781107198869
• ISBN-10: 1107198860
• Artikelnr.: 48097782

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. Euthanasia Legislation in Belgium and its
Applications: 1. A discussion of the legal rules on euthanasia in Belgium
briefly compared with the rules in Luxembourg and the Netherlands Herman
Nys; 2. The Belgian experience of euthanasia since its legal implementation
in 2002 Etienne Montero; 3. Ethics and the psychiatric dimensions of
physician assisted suicide: a view from the United States Daniel P.
Sulmasy; Part ll. Euthanasia and End of Life Care: 4. Assisted dying - the
current situation in Flanders: euthanasia embedded in palliative care Paul
Vanden Berghe, Arsène Mullie, Marc Desmet and Gert Huysmans; PostScript:
death as disruption or disruptive dying? Some further reflections since
2013 'Assisted dying - the current situation in Flanders: euthanasia
embedded in palliative care' Paul Vanden Berghe, Marc Desmet and Gert
Huysmans; 5. The practice of continuous sedation at the end of life in
Belgium: how does it compare to UK practice, and is it being used as a form
of euthanasia? Sigrid Sterckx and Kasper Rau; 6. 2002-2016: fourteen years
of euthanasia in Belgium: first-line observations by an oncologist Benoit
Beuselinck; 7. 'A last act of grace'? Organ donation and euthanasia in
Belgium Trevor Stammers; Part lll. Euthanasia and Particular Vulnerable
Groups: 8. A life worth living? Disabled people and euthanasia in Belgium
Kevin Fitzpatrick and David Albert Jones; 9. Euthanasia in patients with
intolerable suffering due to an irremediable psychiatric illness: a
psychiatric perspective Joris Vandenberghe; 10. Euthanasia in children:
keep asking the right questions Stefaan Van Gool and Jan De Lepeleire; 11.
Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life' Raphael Cohen-Almagor; 12.
Euthanasia in persons with severe dementia Chris Gastmans; Part lV.
Euthanasia in Belgium: A Philosophical and Bioethical Discussion: 13. Some
possible consequences arising from the normalisation of euthanasia in
Belgium Calum MacKellar; 14. Euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium:
bringing an end to interminable discussion David Albert Jones; 15.
Psychiatric patients and the culture of euthanasia in Belgium Willem
Lemmens; Final conclusions on final solutions David Albert Jones, Chris
Gastmans and Calum MacKellar.