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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy - An Argument against Legalisation (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy - An Argument against Legalisation (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia
and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they
were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be
effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of
legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon lends support
to the two 'slippery slope' arguments against legalisation, the
'empirical' and the 'logical'. The empirical argument challenges
the feasibility of drafting and enforcing adequate safeguards
against abuse and mistake; the logical argument shows that
acceptance of the case for euthanasia in the case of suffering
patients who request it logically involves acceptance of euthanasia
for suffering patients who are unable to request it, such as
infants and those with advanced dementia.
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