Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A case for the legalisation of voluntary medically assisted death
- 3 Medical futility
- 4 Physician-assisted suicide
- 5 The sanctity of human life
- 6 Killing versus letting die, the doctrine of double effect, and palliative care for the dying
- 7 Professional integrity and voluntary medically assisted death
- 8 Competence and end-of-life decision making
- 9 Advance directives
- 10 Voluntary medically assisted death and slippery slope arguments
- 11 Non-voluntary euthanasia
- 12 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index of English-language legal cases
- Index of names and subjects
Index of English-language legal cases
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A case for the legalisation of voluntary medically assisted death
- 3 Medical futility
- 4 Physician-assisted suicide
- 5 The sanctity of human life
- 6 Killing versus letting die, the doctrine of double effect, and palliative care for the dying
- 7 Professional integrity and voluntary medically assisted death
- 8 Competence and end-of-life decision making
- 9 Advance directives
- 10 Voluntary medically assisted death and slippery slope arguments
- 11 Non-voluntary euthanasia
- 12 Concluding remarks
- References
- Index of English-language legal cases
- Index of names and subjects
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- Medically Assisted Death , pp. 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007