The Resource Debating euthanasia, Emily Jackson and John Keown
Debating euthanasia, Emily Jackson and John Keown
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- Summary
- "Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose present fear of the dying process causes them overwhelming distress. John Keown argues that voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are gravely unethical and he defends their continued prohibition by law. He analyses the main arguments for relaxation of the law--including those which invoke the experience of jurisdictions which permit these practices--and finds them wanting. Relaxing the law would, he concludes, be both wrong in principle and dangerous in practice, not least for the dying, the disabled and the disadvantaged"--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Debating euthanasia
- Title
- Debating euthanasia
- Statement of responsibility
- Emily Jackson and John Keown
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an assisted death. In a liberal society, where people's moral views differ, we should not force individuals to experience deaths they find intolerable. This is not an argument in favour of dying. On the contrary, Jackson argues that legalisation could extend and enhance the lives of people whose present fear of the dying process causes them overwhelming distress. John Keown argues that voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are gravely unethical and he defends their continued prohibition by law. He analyses the main arguments for relaxation of the law--including those which invoke the experience of jurisdictions which permit these practices--and finds them wanting. Relaxing the law would, he concludes, be both wrong in principle and dangerous in practice, not least for the dying, the disabled and the disadvantaged"--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- NLM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1966-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jackson, Emily
- Dewey number
- 344.04197
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- K3611.E95
- LC item number
- J33 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2012 B-664
- WB 65
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Keown, John
- Series statement
- Debating law
- Series volume
- v. 3
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Euthanasia
- Euthanasia
- Euthanasia
- Suicide, Assisted
- Label
- Debating euthanasia, Emily Jackson and John Keown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-178) and index
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- volume
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- rdacarrier
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- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 769192727
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 190 pages
- Isbn
- 9781849461788
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- AUTH: LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. EXAMINE LEGAL & ETHICAL ASPECTS.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769192727
- Label
- Debating euthanasia, Emily Jackson and John Keown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-178) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 769192727
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- x, 190 pages
- Isbn
- 9781849461788
- Isbn Type
- (pbk.)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Note
- AUTH: LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS. EXAMINE LEGAL & ETHICAL ASPECTS.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)769192727
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