New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Book Overview

Introduction.- Assisted Dying and the Proper Role of Patient Autonomy.- Preventing Assistance to Die: Assessing Indirect Paternalism Regarding Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.- Autonomy, Interests, Justice and Active Medical Euthanasia.- Mental Illness, Lack of Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death.- Euthanasia for Mental Suffering.- Assisted Dying for Individuals with Dementia: Challenges for Translating Ethical Positions into Law.- Clinical Ethics Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide.- License to Kill: A New Model for Excusing Medically Assisted Dying?.- Medically Enabled Suicides.- Saving Lives with Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Organ Donation after
Assisted Dying.- Implanted Medical Devices and End-of-Life Decisions.- Everyday Attitudes about Euthanasia and the Slippery Slope Argument.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319220497
• ISBN13: 9783319220499
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"