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Assisted Dying - Reflections on the Need for Law Reform (Hardcover)
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Assisted Dying - Reflections on the Need for Law Reform (Hardcover)
Series: Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
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Assisted Dying explores the law relating to euthanasia and assisted
suicide, tracing its development from prohibition through to the
laissez faire attitude adopted in a number of countries in the 21st
Century. This book provides an in-depth critique of the arguments
surrounding legislative control of such practices and particularly
looks into the regulatory role of the state. In the classical
tradition of libertarianism, the state is generally presumed to
have a remit to intervene where an individual's actions threaten
another, rather than harm the individuals themselves. This arguably
leaves a question mark over the state's determined intervention, in
the UK and elsewhere, into the private and highly personal choices
of individuals to die rather than live. The perceived role of the
state in safeguarding the moral values of the community and the
need for third party involvement in assisted suicide and euthanasia
could be thought to raise these practices to a different level.
These considerations may be in direct conflict with the so called
right to die espoused by some individuals and groups within the
community. However this book will argue that the state's interests
are and should be second to the interests that the people
themselves have in choosing their own death. Assisted Dying is
winner of the The Minty Prize of the Society of Authors, and winner
of the Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards, 2008
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