Euthanasia and assisted suicide : global views on choosing to end life

Summary: This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures.

Record details

ISBN: 9781440836794
ISBN: 1440836795
ISBN: 9781440836800
Physical Description: print
ix, 409 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I. History, practice, and law -- Physician-assisted dying and the law in the United States : A perspective on three prospective futures -- The Assisted Dying Bill for England and Wales -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide : Attitudes and policies in Mexico -- Suffering, compassion, and freedom : Mahāyāna Buddhism and East Asian attitudes toward assisted suicide and euthanasia -- The continental perspective on assisted suicide and euthanasia -- Christian perspectives on assisted dying : An issue for religious ethics -- pt. II. Ethics and policy -- Ethical evaluation of euthanasia in the Islamic tradition -- An argument in favor of the morality of voluntary medically assisted death -- Limiting the right to die : Moral logic, professional integrity, societal ethos -- Respect for personal autonomy in the justification of death-hastening choices -- Intention, permissibility, and the consistency of traditional end-of-life care -- Assisted dying and palliation -- Capacity and assisted dying -- Advance directives for euthanasia -- Pediatric euthanasia -- Traveling for assisted suicide.