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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy

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This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon lends support to the two 'slippery slope' arguments against legalisation, the 'empirical' and the 'logical'. The empirical argument challenges the feasibility of drafting and enforcing adequate safeguards against abuse and mistake; the logical argument shows that acceptance of the case for euthanasia in the case of suffering patients who request it logically involves acceptance of euthanasia for suffering patients who are unable to request it, such as infants and those with advanced dementia.

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ISBN: 9781107043206
Publication date: 18th October 2018
Author: John, DCL (Georgetown University, Washington DC) Keown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 558 pages
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
Genres: Ethical issues: euthanasia and right to die
Medical ethics and professional conduct
Medicolegal issues