Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Table of cases
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I Definitions
- PART II The ethical debate: human life, autonomy, legal hypocrisy, and the slippery slope
- PART III The Dutch experience: controlling VAE? condoning NVAE?
- PART IV Australia and the United States
- PART V Expert opinion
- PART VI Passive euthanasia: withholding/withdrawing treatment and tube-feeding with intent to kill
- Conclusions
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
PART I - Definitions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Table of cases
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART I Definitions
- PART II The ethical debate: human life, autonomy, legal hypocrisy, and the slippery slope
- PART III The Dutch experience: controlling VAE? condoning NVAE?
- PART IV Australia and the United States
- PART V Expert opinion
- PART VI Passive euthanasia: withholding/withdrawing treatment and tube-feeding with intent to kill
- Conclusions
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The euthanasia debate is riddled with confusion and misunderstanding. Much of the confusion derives from a failure of participants in the debate to define their terms. Part I seeks to clarify the confusion by noting some of the differing definitions in the current debate, indicating the underlying moral distinctions they reflect, and assessing their relative merits.
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- Euthanasia, Ethics and Public PolicyAn Argument Against Legalisation, pp. 7 - 8Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002