基本説明
Expanded to include a full treatment of Belgium, where since 2002 euthanasia has also become legal.
Full Description
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?
Contents
1 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
Introduction to Part III
11 England and Wales
12 France
13 Italy
14 Scandinavia
15 Spain
16 Switzerland
17 Comparative Data
PART IV THEMATIC REFLECTIONS
Introduction to Part IV
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'
