Physician-Assisted Death in Perspective (eBook, PDF)

Assessing the Dutch Experience
Redaktion: Youngner, Stuart J.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive report and analysis of the Dutch euthanasia experience over the last three decades. In contrast to most books about euthanasia, which are written by authors from countries where the practice is illegal and therefore practised only secretly, this book analyzes empirical data and real-life clinical behavior. Its essays were written by the leading Dutch scholars and clinicians who shaped euthanasia policy and who have studied, evaluated and helped regulate it. Some of them have themselves practised euthanasia. The book will contribute to the world literature on physician-assisted death by providing a comprehensive examination of how euthanasia has been practised and how it has evolved in one specific national and cultural context. It will greatly advance the understanding of euthanasia among both advocates and opponents of the practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139534062
• Artikelnr.: 38277683

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Stuart J. Youngner and Gerrit K. Kimsma; Part I. Background
and History: 1. The lateness of the Dutch euthanasia debate and its
consequences James C. Kennedy; 2. Classifications and definitions: Dutch
developments John Legemaate; 3. The legalization of euthanasia in the
Netherlands: revolutionary normality Heleen Weyers; 4. The normative
context of the Dutch euthanasia law Esther Pans; 5. Dutch social groups on
euthanasia: the political spectrum on ending life on request Heleen Weyers;
6. The Dutch social fabric: health care, trust, and solidarity Margo
Trappenburg and Hans Oversloot; Part II. Regulation and Practice
Deficiencies: 7. The unreported cases Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen; 8.
Physician-assistance in dying without an explicit request by the patient
Agnes van der Heide; 9. When requests do not result in euthanasia or
assisted suicide Roeline W. Pasman; 10. Dutch euthanasia in retrospect John
Griffiths; Part III. Quality Assurance: 11. Euthanasia consultants:
professional assessment before euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in
the Netherlands Gerrit K. Kimsma; 12. Reviews after the act: the role and
the work of regional euthanasia review committees Gerrit K. Kimsma and
Evert Van Leeuwen; 13. Palliative care and physician-assisted death Dick
Willems; Part IV. Learning from the Practice: 14. Unbearable suffering and
advanced dementia: the moral problems of advance directives for euthanasia
Cees M. P. M. Hertogh; 15. Decision making capacity in patients who are in
the early stage of Alzheimer's disease and who request physician-assisted
suicide Ron Berghmans; 16. Being 'weary of life' as cause for seeking
euthanasia of physician-assisted suicide Mette Rurup; 17. Shared
obligations and 'medical friendships' in assisted dying: moral and
psychological repercussions reconsidered Gerrit K. Kimsma and Chalmers C.
Clark; 18. Depression, euthanasia and assisted suicide Marije van der Lee;
19. End-of-life decisions in children and newborns in the Netherlands
Pieter J. J. Sauer and A. A. Eduard Verhangen; 20. Hastening death through
voluntary cessation of eating and drinking: a survey Boudewijn E. Chabot;
Part V. The Challenge of Unbearable Suffering: 21. The subjectivity of
suffering and the normativity of unbearableness Henri Wijsbek; 22.
Assessment of unbearable and hopeless suffering in evaluating a request to
end life Gerrit K. Kimsma; Part VI. Overview: 23. The regulation of
euthanasia: how successful is the Dutch system? Govert den Hartogh; 24. No
regrets Margo Trappenburg.