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| Voluntary euthanasia and the common law | | Author(s) | Margaret Otlowski |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1997 |
| Pages | 564 pp |
| Source | Oxford University Press, Saxon Way West, Corby NN18 9ES. |
| Keywords | Euthanasia ; Suicide ; Common law ; Criminal law ; Australia ; United States of America ; Canada ; United Kingdom ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The author considers the legal status of medically administered euthanasia under the criminal law, focusing on the law's differential treatment of active and passive euthanasia. The implications for doctors who assist suicide of their patients is examined, with reference to case law in the United States and Canada. Evidence of doctors' involvement and the general debate on euthanasia are analysed. Changes in society have contributed to a more receptive climate for reform, given developments in the Northern Territory of Australia and Oregon in the US, as well as in the Netherlands, where euthanasia is openly practised though not actually legalised. The options for reform - mercy killing, legalisation of doctor-assisted suicide, or legalisation of active voluntary euthanasia - are put. On balance, with the limitations of legislation, legislative reform is necessary and appropriate. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970924216 B |
| Classmark | CY: EV: VRC: VX: 7YA: 7T: 7S: 8: 76H |
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