End-of-life law reform : context and challenges -- The path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and beyond: Lessons about MAiD 14 and Beyond: Lessons about MAiD law reform from Canada -- The extension of the Belgian euthanasia law to minors in 2014 -- The role of scientific evaluations of the Dutch termination of life on mination of Life on request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedure) Act : old law, new boundaries -- The challenging path to voluntary assisted dying law reform in Australia : Victoria as a successful case study -- Should assisted dying require the consent of a high court judge? -- Aid in dying in the United States : past, present, and future -- The medical regulator as law reformer : Quebec's Act respecting end-of-life care -- Extrajudicial resolution of medical futility disputes : key factors in establishing and dismantling the Texas Advance Directives Act -- How to change the law : challenging mandatory court Hearings for people in vegetative and minimally conscious states -- Withholding and withdrawing life-prolonging treatment and the relevance of patients' wishes : reforming the Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- International perspectives on reforming end-of-life law.
Summary:
"However, the barriers and facilitators of such changes - law reform perspectives - have been virtually ignored. Why do so many attempts to change the law fail but others are successful? International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform aims to address this question by drawing on ten case studies of end-of-life law reform from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia. Written by leading end-of-life scholars, the book's chapters blend perspectives from law, medicine, bioethics and sociology to examine sustained reform efforts to permit assisted dying and change the law about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. Findings from this book not only shed light on changing end-of-life law but also provide insight more generally into how and why law reform succeeds in complex and controversial social policy areas"-- Provided by publisher.
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