Medically assisted death

Resource Information

The work Medically assisted death represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Medically assisted death

Statement of responsibility

Robert Young

Creator

• Young, Robert, Ph. D

Subject

• Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation
• Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- Case studies
• Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
• Case studies
• Dödshjälp
• Euthanasia -- Law and legislation
• Euthanasia -- Law and legislation
• Euthanasia -- Law and legislation -- Case studies
• Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation
• Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Case studies
• Euthanasia -- ethics
• Euthanasia -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Right to Die
• Rätten att dö
• S
• Suicide, Assisted -- ethics
• Suicide, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Tötung auf Verlangen
• Tötung auf Verlangen
• Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects

Genre

• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

"Does a competent person suffering from a terminal illness or enduring an otherwise burdensome existence, who considers his life no longer of value but is incapable of ending it, have a right to be helped to die? Should someone for whom further medical treatment would be futile be allowed to die regardless of expressing a preference to be given all possible treatment? These are some of the questions that are asked and answered in this wide-ranging discussion of both the morality of medically assisted death and the justifiability of making certain instances legal. A case is offered in support of the moral and legal permissibility of specified instances of medically assisted death, along with responses to the main objections that have been levelled against it. The philosophical argument is bolstered by empirical evidence from The Netherlands and Oregon where voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are already legal."--Jacket

Cataloging source

NLM

Index

index present

LC call number

R726

LC item number

.Y64 2007

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

• 2007 M-269
• WB 60

NLM item number

Y75m 2007