Euthanasia and assisted suicide lessons from Belgium

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jones, David Albert, editor (editor), Gastmans, Chris, 1966- editor, MacKellar, C. (Calum), editor
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 2018
Colección:Cambridge bioethics and law
Materias:
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991010677919708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
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  • A discussion of the legal rules on euthanasia in Belgium briefly compared with the rules in Luxembourg and the Netherlands / Herman Nys
  • The Belgian experience of euthanasia since its legal implementation in 2002 / Etienne Montero Daniel P. Sulmasy / Ethics and the psychiatric dimensions of physician assisted suicide : a view from the United States / Daniel P. Sulmasy
  • Assisted dying : the current situation in Flanders : euthanasia embedded in palliative care / Paul Vanden Berghe, Arsène Mullie, Marc Desmet, and Gert Huysmans
  • 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? / Sigrid Sterckx and Kasper Raus
  • 2002-2016 : fourteen years of euthanasia in Belgium : first-line observations by an oncologist / Beboit Beuselinck
  • 'A last act of grace'? Organ donation and euthanasia in Belgium / Trevor Stammers
  • A life worth living? Disabled people and euthanasia in Belgium / Kevin Fitzpatrick and David Albert Jones
  • Euthanasia in patients with intolerable suffering due to an irremediable psychiatric illness : a psychiatric perspective / Joris Vandenberghe
  • Euthanasia in children : keep asking the right questions / Stefaan Van Gool and Jan De Lepeleire
  • Euthanizing people who are 'tired of life' / Raphael Cohen-Almagor
  • Euthanasia in persons with severe dementia / Chris Gastmans
  • Some possible consequences arising from the normalisation of euthanasia in Belgium / Calum MacKellar
  • Euthanasia and assisted suicide in Belgium : bringing an end to interminable discussion / David Albert Jones
  • Psychiatric patients and the culture of euthanasia in Belgium / Willem Lemmens.