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Physician-Assisted Death - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Paperback)
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Physician-Assisted Death - What Everyone Needs to Know (R) (Paperback)
Series: What Everyone Needs To Know (R)
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The issue of physician-assisted death is now firmly on the American
public agenda. Already legal in five states, it is the subject of
intense public opinion battles across the country. Driven by an
increasingly aging population, and a baby boom generation just
starting to enter its senior years, the issue is not going to go
away anytime soon. In Physician-Assited Death L.W. Sumner equips
readers with everything they need to know to take a reasoned and
informed position in this important debate. The book provides
needed context for the debate by situating physician-assisted death
within the wider framework of end-of-life care and explaining why
the movement to legalize it now enjoys such strong public support.
It also reviews that movement's successes to date, beginning in
Oregon in 1994 and now extending to eleven jurisdictions across
three continents. Like abortion, physician-assisted death is
ethically controversial and the subject of passionately held
opinions. The central chapters of the book review the main
arguments utilized by both sides of the controversy: on the one
hand, appeals to patient autonomy and the relief of suffering, on
the other the claim that taking active steps to hasten death
inevitably violates the sanctity of life. The book then explores
both the case in favor of legalization and the case against,
focusing in the latter instance on the risk of abuse and the
possibility of slippery slopes. In this context the experience of
jurisdictions that have already taken the step of legalization is
carefully reviewed to see what lessons might be extracted from it.
It then identifies some further issues that lie beyond the
boundaries of the current debate but will have to be faced sometime
down the road: euthanasia for patients who are permanently
unconscious or have become seriously demented and for severely
compromised newborns. The book concludes by considering the various
possible routes to legalization, both political and judicial.
Readers will then be prepared to decide for themselves just where
they stand when they confront the issue both in their own
jurisdiction and in their own lives.
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