This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical professionals, and questions surrounding intention and causation, this book promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. The novel themes discussed in the revised edition include the role of markets, disability, gender, artificial intelligence, medical futility, race, and transhumanism. Ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and healthcare ethics, the book illustrates how social and technological developments will shape debates about assisted dying in the years to come.
Chapter
1. Assisted Dying and the Proper Role of Patient Autonomy (Emma
C. Bullock).
Chapter
2. Preventing Assistance to Die: Assessing Indirect
Paternalism Regarding Voluntary Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
(Thomas Schramme).
Chapter
3. Autonomy, Interests, Justice and Active
Medical Euthanasia (Julian Savulescu).
Chapter
4. Mental Illness, Lack of
Autonomy, and Physician-Assisted Death (Jukka Varelius).
Chapter
5. Assisted
Dying for Individuals with Dementia: Challenges for Translating
Ethical Positions into Law (Jocelyn Downie).
Chapter 6. Clinical Ethics
Consultation and Physician Assisted Suicide (David M.
Adams).- Chapter 7. License to Kill: A New Model for Excusing Medically
Assisted Dying? (Richard Huxtable).
Chapter 8. Saving Lives with Assisted
Suicide and Euthanasia: Organ Donation After Assisted Dying (David M. Shaw).-
Chapter 9. Everyday Attitudes About Euthanasia and the Slippery Slope
Argument (Adam Feltz).
Chapter 10. You Got Me Into This...: Procreative
Responsibility and Its Implications for Suicide and Euthanasia (Rivka
Weinberg).
Chapter 11. Due Care in the Context of Euthanasia Requests by
Persons with Psychiatric Illness: Lessons from a Recent Criminal Trial in
Belgium (Marc De Hert).
Chapter 12. Medical Futility and Assisted Dying
(Nancy S. Jecker).
Chapter 13. Medical Aid in Dying: The Case of Disability
(Christopher A. Riddle).
Chapter 14. A Feminist Approach to Medical Aid in
Dying: Identifying a Path Forward (Jennifer A. Parks).
Chapter
15. Envisioning Markets in Assisted Dying (Michael Cholbi).
Chapter
16. Robots, AI, and Assisted Dying: Ethical and Philosophical Considerations
(Ryan Tonkens).
Chapter 17. Dying to Live: Transhumanism, Cryonics, and
Euthanasia (Adam Buben).
Chapter 18. When is Self-perceived Burden an
Acceptable Reason to Hasten Death? (Michael Gill).
Michael Cholbi is Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in the philosophy of death and dying. His authored books include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview Press, 2011), Understanding Kants Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2021). His edited books include Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life (Praeger, 2017), and Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2020, with T. Timmerman). He is the founder and coordinator of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying and an ordinary member of the Scottish Cross-Parliamentary Group on End of Life Choices.
Jukka Varelius is a philosopher whose work focuses on questions of moral philosophy and applied ethics. He has written on topics such as physician-assisted death, individual autonomy, informed consent, advance directives, the nature of mental and physical health, human enhancement, and ethical expertise in journals like Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Neuroethics, Bioethics, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Varelius is also a co-editor of Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life (Springer, 2013).
