Stevie Martin

Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights

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Produktbeschreibung

Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond.

Produktdetails

• Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 241mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9780367628222
• ISBN-10: 0367628228
• Artikelnr.: 61605326

Autorenporträt

Stevie Martin is a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1:The Legal Status of End-of-Life Practices: A Comparative
Introduction
Chapter 2: Protecting Life and Assisting Death: Is Not Allowing Assisted
Suicide a Violation of the Right to Life?
Chapter 3: Freedom from Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Does the
Prohibition on Assisted Suicide Constitute Ill-Treatment?
Chapter 4: The Right to Choose the Manner and Timing of One's Death: A
Re-examination of the Proportionality of the Ban on Assisted Suicide
Chapter 5: Justifying the Ban on Assisted Suicide: The Empirical Evidence
Chapter 6: Differential Treatment of End-of-Life Practices: Discrimination
under Article 14 of the ECHR
Conclusions