The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia /

The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia / / Neil M. Gorsuch.

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The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published. In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil Go...

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Gorsuch, Neil M.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:New Forum Books ; 53
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 3 line illus. 11 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Glucksberg and Quill Controversies: The Judiciary's (Non)Resolution of the Assisted Suicide Debate
  • 3. The Debate over History
  • 4. Arguments from Fairness and Equal Protection: If a Right to Refuse, Then a Right to Assisted Suicide?
  • 5. Casey and Cruzan: Do They Intimate a Right to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia?
  • 6. Autonomy Theory's Implications for the Debate over Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
  • 7. Legalization and the Law of Unintended Consequences: Utilitarian Arguments for Legalization
  • 8. Two Test Cases: Posner and Epstein
  • 9. An Argument against Legalization
  • 10. Toward a Consistent End-of-Life Ethic: The "Right to Refuse" Care for Competent and Incompetent Patients
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A. Certain American Statutory Laws Banning or Disapproving of Assisted Suicide
  • Appendix B. Statistical Calculations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter

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