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Euthanasia and assisted suicide : lessons from Belgium / edited by David Albert Jones, Chris Gastmans, Calum MacKellar.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge bioethics and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euthanasia--Law and legislation--Belgium.
- Euthanasia.
- Right to die--Law and legislation--Belgium.
- Right to die.
- Assisted suicide--Law and legislation--Belgium.
- Assisted suicide.
- Euthanasia--Law and legislation.
- Assisted suicide--Law and legislation.
- Right to die--Law and legislation.
- Belgium.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 363 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Herman Nys / A discussion of the legal rules on euthanasia in Belgium briefly compared with the rules in Luxembourg and the Netherlands
- Etienne Montero / The Belgian experience of euthanasia since its legal implementation in 2002
- Daniel P. Sulmasy / Ethics and the psychiatric dimensions of physician assisted suicide : a view from the United States
- Paul Vanden Berghe, Arsène Mullie, Marc Desmet, and Gert Huysmans / Assisted dying : the current situation in Flanders : euthanasia embedded in palliative care
- Sigrid Sterckx and Kasper Raus / The practice of continuous sedation at the end of life in Belgium : how does it compare to UK practice, and is it being used as a form of euthanasia?
- Benoit Beuselinck / 2002-2016 : fourteen years of euthanasia in Belgium : first-line observations by an oncologist
- Trevor Stammers / A last act of grace? organ donation and euthanasia in Belgium
- Kevin Fitzpatrick and David Albert Jones / A life worth living? disabled people and euthanasia in Belgium
- Joris Vandenberghe / Euthanasia in patients with intolerable suffering due to an irremediable psychiatric illness : a psychiatric perspective
- Stefaan Van Gool and Jan De Lepeleire / Euthanasia in children : keep asking the right questions
- Raphael Cohen-Almagor / Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life'
- Chris Gastmans / Euthanasia in persons with severe dementia
- Calum MacKellar / Some possible consequences arising from the normalisation of euthanasia in Belgium
- David Albert Jones / Euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium : bringing an end to interminable discussion
- Willem Lemmens / Psychiatric patients and the culture of euthanasia in Belgium.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107198869
- 1107198860
- 9781316648353
- 1316648354
- OCLC:
- 983796153
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