Introduction / Michael Cholbi and Jukka Varelius -- Assisted dying and the proper role of patient autonomy / Emma C. Bullock -- Preventing assistance to die : assessing indirect paternalism regarding voluntary active euthanasia and assisted suicide / Thomas Schramme -- Autonomy, interests, justice and active medical euthanasia / Julian Savulescu -- Mental illness, lack of autonomy, and physician-assisted death / Jukka Varelius -- Euthanasia for mental suffering / Kasper Raus and Sigrid Sterckx -- Assisted dying for individuals with dementia : challenges for translating ethical positions into law / Jocelyn Downie and Georgia Lloyd-Smith -- Clinical ethics consultation and physician assisted suicide / David M. Adams -- License to kill : a new model for excusing medically assisted dying? / Richard Huxtable and Jonathan Ives -- Medically enabled suicides / Michael Cholbi -- Saving lives with assisted suicide and euthanasia : organ donation after assisted dying / David M. Shaw -- Implanted medical devices and end-of-life decisions / Michael B. Gill -- Everyday attitudes about euthanasia and the slippery slope argument / Adam Feltz -- "You got me into this ..." : procreative responsibility and its implications for suicide and euthanasia / Rivka Weinberg.
Summary:
This volume on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying goes beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation. Essays reconsider the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the roles proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultations in connection with assisted dying; relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ donation and developments in medical technology; and demonstrates the significance of experimental philosophy in assessing questions of assisted dying.--From publisher description.
Series:
International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine, 1567-8008 ; volume 64
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