The Reality of Assisted Dying: Understanding the Issues

Julian Hughes, Ilora Finlay (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

2024
Open University Press (Verlag)
978-0-335-25317-3 (ISBN)

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“This is a book to be read by all involved in either side of this heated debate.”
Dr C Fourcade, President of the French Association for Palliative Care, France

"This powerful collection of essays brilliantly unpacks the legal, ethical and practical issues around the assisted dying debate.”
Jonathan Herring, Professor of Law, University of Oxford, UK

“This is an essential exploration of the complexities behind the sound bites.”
Baroness Campbell of Surbiton DBE, UK

“A much needed, timely compendium covering the main issues underlying and surrounding Assisted Dying.”
Robert Twycross, Past Head, WHO Collaborative Centre for Palliative Care, Oxford, UK

"Wherever your views lie on … assisted dying, you should read this book.”
Dr Matt Morgan, Professor of Intensive Care, Cardiff University, UK, and Curtin University, Australia

At a critical moment in the UK debate, this book provides up-to-date reflections from a broad variety of international experts on the profoundly important issues that surround changes in the law in any jurisdiction in connection with assisted dying and considers the realities that surround such changes.

The Reality of Assisted Dying covers all the important issues in the debates about assisted suicide and euthanasia. This includes thoughts on the role of the law, discussion of important philosophical and ethical concepts, investigating the various issues that arise in the practice of medicine and palliative care, and scrutinizing concerns about definitions, coercion, consequences and safety.

This book:

Provides up-to-date data, evidence and reflections from professionals from countries where assisted dying has been legalized;
Takes a fresh look at the arguments around legalization of assisted dying;
Shows how a change in the law must take account of all those who will be affected, including families and those who will feel compelled to participate by assisting suicides or performing euthanasia;
Shows the problems and dangers of embedding assisted dying within healthcare, and explores how alternative socio-legal procedures would improve legitimacy and monitoring for patients and their families.

The book is relevant to a variety of intellectual disciplines and to political and social debates both in the UK and internationally, as well as being of interest to general readers and students studying the many relevant subjects, from medicine, to law, sociology, politics, philosophy and ethics.

Julian C. Hughes has studied and been a professor of both philosophy and of old age psychiatry. He was an NHS consultant in old age psychiatry and served as deputy chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, UK. His most recent book was Dementia and Ethics Reconsidered, published by Open University Press.

Ilora G. Finlay is a Crossbench Peer in the House of Lords, an honorary professor of palliative medicine at Cardiff University, UK, past President of the BMA and the Royal Society of Medicine. A founder director of Living and Dying Well, she co-authored Death by Appointment and led on legislation to encourage the availability of palliative care for all.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	31.08.2024
Verlagsort	Milton Keynes
Sprache	englisch
Maße	171 x 242 mm
Gewicht	437 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-335-25317-2 / 0335253172
ISBN-13	978-0-335-25317-3 / 9780335253173
Zustand	Neuware