TY  - GEN
AU  - Tulloch, Gail
TI  - Euthanaisa: choice and death
SN  - 9780748618811
U1  - 344.04197 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
N2  - Series Preface ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Part One
1. Choice and Death                          3
Biological death                                  4                                       
Human death                                    4                                                 
The good death                                  6        
Defining death                                7               
   The Harvard definition of brain death         9	
   The brain                                    12     	
    Defining death: selective non-treatment     
      of severely disabled newborns             14	
2.  Stark Choices                                   23
Conceptual distinctions                       24                          The slippery slope                              32
Voluntary/involuntary, active/ 
passive euthanasia                          33               
For and against euthanasia                    34
Resource allocation choices                    37
Two examples of decision procedures        39
The individual and the state                  41
The man on the bridge                          42
A liberal society                                 45
Part Two
3   Death and Dying in America                  51
The Philosophers' Brief                       52  
The right to die                                  58
    Legal milestones                           61
    The Oregon Death with Dignity Act        64
    The state and the individual revisited       67
4   Legal Disputes over Death in England     80  
    The Devlin doctrine                        80   
    The Tony Bland case                       82
    Killing and letting die revisited             85
    Euthanasia in 1994 and 2004               88
    The Diane Pretty case                      89
5   Legalizing Euthanasia in The Netherlands  95
    The Dutch scene                           95
    Early euthanasia cases                     97
   The Rotterdam criteria                      99                               
   The Dutch definition of euthanasia          99
   The Remmelink reports                    101
6  A Legislative Experiment in Australia     114           
   Withdrawal treatment - John McEwan 
   to Mrs. V                                  115
Suicide, assisted suicide and voluntary 
euthanasia                                   118 Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted 
suicide                                       120
The Northern Territory experiment           124
The Nancy Crick case 2002                  129

Conclusion                                   135

References                                   143
Further reading                              151
Index                                        157


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