International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Persuasion and Persistence
Redaktion: White, Ben P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes - law reform perspectives - have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform aims to address this question by drawing on ten case studies of end-of-life law reform from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Written by leading end-of-life scholars, the book's chapters blend perspectives from law, medicine, bioethics and sociology to examine sustained reform efforts to permit assisted dying and change the law about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. Findings from this book shed light not only on changing end-of-life law, but provide insight more generally into how and why law reform succeeds in complex and controversial social policy areas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108808675
• Artikelnr.: 66185356

Inhaltsangabe

1. End-of-life law reform: context and challenges Ben P. White and Lindy
Willmott; 2. The path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and beyond: lessons about
MAiD law reform from Canada Jocelyn Downie and Kate Scallion; 3. The
extension of the Belgian Euthanasia law to minors in 2014 Kasper Raus, Luc
Deliens and Kenneth Chambaere; 4. The role of scientific evaluations of the
Dutch termination of life on request and assisted suicide (Review
Procedure) act: old law, new boundaries Agnes van der Heide, Johan
Legemaate, Hans van Delden and Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen; 5. The
challenging path to voluntary assisted dying law reform in Australia:
Victoria as a successful case study Lindy Willmott and Ben P. White; 6.
Should assisted dying require the consent of a high court judge? Penney
Lewis; 7. Aid in dying in the United States: past, present and future David
Orentlicher; 8. The medical regulator as law reformer: Québec's act
respecting end-of-life care Mona Gupta; 9. Extrajudicial resolution of
medical futility disputes: key factors in establishing and dismantling the
Texas advance directives act Thaddeus Mason Pope; 10. How to change the
law: challenging mandatory court hearings for people in vegetative and
minimally conscious states Celia Kitzinger and Jenny Kitzinger; 11.
Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment and the relevance of
patients' wishes: reforming the mental capacity act 2005 Emily Jackson; 12.
International perspectives on reforming end-of-life law Ben P. White, Lindy
Willmott, Jocelyn Downie, Penney Lewis, Celia Kitzinger, Jenny Kitzinger,
Kenneth Chambaere, Thaddeus Mason Pope, Luc Deliens, Mona Gupta, Emily
Jackson, Agnes van der Heide, Eliana Close, Katrine Del Villar and Jodhi
Rutherford; Index.