Author: Margaret Otlowski
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, common, euthanasia, voluntary
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2000-11-30
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 0198298684
ISBN-13: 9780198298687

Margaret Otlowski investigates the complex and controversial issue of active voluntary euthanasia. She critically examines the criminal law prohibition of medically administered active voluntary euthanasia in common law jurisdictions, and carefully looks at the situation as handled in practice. The evidence of patient demands for active euthanasia and the willingness of some doctors to respond to patients’ requests is explored, and an argument for reform of the law is made with reference to the position in the Netherlands (where active voluntary euthanasia is now openly practiced).

Author: Linda Jackson
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree
Keywords: facts, face, euthanasia
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $32.86
ISBN-10: 1410910687
ISBN-13: 9781410910684

This is one of a series of titles exploring various social issues aimed at readers aged 13 and over.

Author: Hazel Biggs
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Keywords: law, dignity, death, euthanasia
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 1841130915
ISBN-13: 9781841130910

Many advocates of euthanasia consider the criminal law to be an inappropriate medium to adjudicate the profound ethical and humanitarian dilemmas associated with end of life decisions. ’Euthanasia, Death with Dignity and the Law’ examines the legal response to euthanasia and end of life decisions and considers whether legal reform is an appropriate response to calls for euthanasia to be more readily available as a mechanism for providing death with dignity.

Author: Roger Magnusson
Publisher: Melbourne University
Keywords: underground, euthanasia, exploring, death, angels
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2002-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0522849709
ISBN-13: 9780522849707

Angels of Death presents the findings of an interview-based study of illicit euthanasia as practised by health professionals working with HIV/AIDS patients. The principal author conducted 49 detailed interviews with medical practitioners, and nurses (and some therapists and community workers), primarily in Sydney, Melbourne and San Francisco. The interviews provide an insight into the social practices that surround illicit assisted suicide and euthanasia.

Author: Henry Friedlander
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Pre
Keywords: final, solution, euthanasia, genocide, nazi, origins
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1997-09-22
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0807846759
ISBN-13: 9780807846759

Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies, Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. He describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for the later mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust. The Nazi regime pursued the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, and the handicapped based on a belief in the biological, and thus absolute, inferiority of those groups. To document the connection between the assault on th

Author: Shai J. Lavi
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: united, states, euthanasia, history, art, dying, modern
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-07-05
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0691102635
ISBN-13: 9780691102634

How we die reveals much about how we live. In this provocative book, Shai Lavi traces the history of euthanasia in the United States to show how changing attitudes toward death reflect new and troubling ways of experiencing pain, hope, and freedom.Lavi begins with the historical meaning of euthanasia as signifying an "easeful death." Over time, he shows, the term came to mean a death blessed by the grace of God, and later, medical hastening of death. Lavi illustrates these changes with compelling accounts of changes at the deathbed. He takes us from early nineteenth-century deathbeds governed

Author: Neil M. Gorsuch
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: forum, books, new, euthanasia, assisted, suicide, future
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0691140979
ISBN-13: 9780691140971

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published.In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil Gorsuch thoroughly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of leading contemporary ethical arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. He explores evidence and case histories from the Netherlands and Oregon, where the practices have been legalized. He analyzes libertarian and autonomy-based arguments