LEADER 04603nam 22006371 450 001 9910453301103321 005 20081028125706.0 010 $a1-4725-6436-7 010 $a1-281-84700-3 010 $a9786611847005 010 $a1-84731-430-9 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472564368 035 $a(CKB)1000000000556115 035 $a(EBL)367835 035 $a(OCoLC)437236254 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000150682 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12038056 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150682 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10280005 035 $a(PQKB)10813213 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1772434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC367835 035 $a(OCoLC)608623416 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09256701 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL367835 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000556115 100 $a20140929d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEuthanasia and law in Europe /$fJohn Griffiths and Heleen Weyers, Maurice Adams 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aOxford ;$aPortland, Oregon :$cHart Publishing,$d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (644 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84113-700-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [533]-574) and index. 327 $a1 Introduction -- PART I THE NETHERLANDS. 2 The Netherlands and the Dutch Health Care System ; 3 Recent Developments in Dutch Euthanasia Law ; 4 Dutch Law on Euthanasia and Other MBPSL ; 5 Dutch MBPSL Law in Context and in Practice ; 6 Termination of Life in Neonatology -- PART II BELGIUM. 7 Belgium and the Belgian Health Care System ; 8 The Legalisation of Euthanasia in Belgium ; 9 Belgian Law on Euthanasia and Other MBPSL ; 10 Belgian MBPSL Law in Context and in Practice -- PART III OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES. 11 England and Wales ; 12 France ; 13 Italy ; 14 Scandinavia ; 15 Spain ; 16 Switzerland ; 17 Comparative Data -- PART IV THEMATIC REFLECTIONS. 18 The Nude Beach Phenomenon: Euthanasia and the Juridification of the Doctor Patient Relationship ; 19 Slithering Up the Slippery Slope ; 20 'Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future'. 330 $a"This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press 1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and accuracy. The new book emphasises recent legal developments and new research, and has been expanded to include a full treatment of Belgium, where since 2002 euthanasia has also become legal. The book also includes descriptions written by local specialists of the legal situation and what is known about actual practice in a number of other European countries (England and Wales, France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland). The book strives for as complete and dispassionate a description of the situation as possible. It covers in detail: - the substantive law applicable to euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, withholding and withdrawing treatment, use of pain relief in potentially lethal doses, palliative and terminal sedation, and termination of life without a request (in particular in the case of newborn babies); -the process of legal development that has led to the current state of the law; -the system of legal control and its operation in practice; -the results of empirical research concerning actual medical practice. A concluding part deals with some general questions that arise out of the material presented: Is the legalisation of euthanasia an example of the decline of law or should it, on the contrary, be seen as part and parcel of the increasing juridification of the doctor-patient relationship? Does the Dutch experience with legalised euthanasia support the idea of a 'slippery slope' toward a situation in which life-especially of the more vulnerable members of society-is less effectively protected? Is it possible to explain and to predict when a society will decide to legalise euthanasia?"--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aEuthanasia$xLaw and legislation$zEurope 606 $2Ethical issues: euthanasia & right to die 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEuthanasia$xLaw and legislation 676 $a344.2404 676 $a344.2404/197 700 $aGriffiths$b John$0795083 702 $aAdams$b Maurice$f1964- 702 $aWeyers$b Heleen 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453301103321 996 $aEuthanasia and law in Europe$92452936 997 $aUNINA