Voluntary Assisted Dying : : Law? Health? Justice?

• Author: Carter, David J.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fleming, Daniel J.
• Place / Publishing House: Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2022.; Ã2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)

Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying in 2019, a 'new moment' in the governance of life and death has opened up within the Australian context. This new moment demands new questions be asked regarding the regime and its effects in this new era for law, health care and justice.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Synopsis -- Introduction -- 1. The Constitution of 'Choice': Voluntary Assisted Dying in the Australian State of Victoria -- 2. Palliative Care as a Necropolitical Technology -- 3. Supported Decision-Making: A Good Idea in Principle but We Need to Consider Supporting Decisions about Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 4. The Compassionate State? 'Voluntary Assisted Dying', Neoliberalism, and a Virtue Without an Anchor -- 5. The Neoliberal Rationality of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 6. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Animals and Euthanasia -- 7. A Desire unto Death: The Warnings of Girard and Levinas against the Sanitisation of Euthanasia -- 8. Gosport Hospital, Euthanasia and Serial Killing -- 9. A Criminal Legal Biopolitics: The Case of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- List of Contributors.