Voluntary assisted dying : : law? health? justice? / / edited by Daniel J. Fleming and David J. Carter.

Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying, 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. This col...

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Place / Publishing House:Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : : ANU Press,, [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 242 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch.1. The constitution of 'choice': voluntary assisted dying in the Australian state of Victoria / Courtney Hempton
  • Ch.2. Palliative care as a necropolitical technology / Hamish Robertson and Joanne Travaglia
  • Ch.3. Supported decision-making: a good idea in principle but we need to consider supporting decisions about voluntary assisted dying / Nola M. Ries and Elise Mansfield
  • Ch.4. The compassionate state? 'voluntary assisted dying', neoliberalism, and a virtue without an anchor / Daniel J Fleming
  • Ch.5. The neoliberal rationality of voluntary assisted dying / Marc Trabsky
  • Ch.6. Over the rainbow bridge: animals and euthanasia / Jessica Ison
  • Ch.7. A desire unto death: the warnings of Girard and Levinas against the sanitisation of euthanasia / Nigel Zimmermann
  • Ch.8. Gosport hospital, euthanasia and serial killing / Penny Crofts
  • Ch.9. A criminal legal biopolitics: the case of voluntary assisted dying / David J Carter.