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Euthanasia and Law in Europe (Hardcover, 2Rev ed)
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Euthanasia and Law in Europe (Hardcover, 2Rev ed)
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This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers,
Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press
1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and
accuracy. The new book emphasises recent legal developments and new
research, and has been expanded to include a full treatment of
Belgium, where since 2002 euthanasia has also become legal. The
book also includes descriptions written by local specialists of the
legal situation and what is known about actual practice in a number
of other European countries (England and Wales, France, Italy,
Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland). The book strives for as complete
and dispassionate a description of the situation as possible. It
covers in detail: - the substantive law applicable to euthanasia,
physician-assisted suicide, withholding and withdrawing treatment,
use of pain relief in potentially lethal doses, palliative and
terminal sedation, and termination of life without a request (in
particular in the case of newborn babies); -the process of legal
development that has led to the current state of the law; -the
system of legal control and its operation in practice; -the results
of empirical research concerning actual medical practice. A
concluding part deals with some general questions that arise out of
the material presented: Is the legalisation of euthanasia an
example of the decline of law or should it, on the contrary, be
seen as part and parcel of the increasing juridification of the
doctor-patient relationship? Does the Dutch experience with
legalised euthanasia support the idea of a 'slippery slope' toward
a situation in which life-especially of the more vulnerable members
of society-is less effectively protected? Is it possible to explain
and to predict when a society will decide to legalise euthanasia?
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