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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Assisted suicide"”.
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Physician-assisted suicide: The courts leave it to the states
… in New York and Washington prohibiting physician-assisted suicide violated neither the Due Process nor the Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Court overturned decisions from the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. The Court stated these decisions do not prevent a …
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Bioethics and human rights in international law: genetic engineering, euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide
… of genetic engineering, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. This dissertation is aimed at specifically focusing on the dichotomy of ideologies and legislation concerning the rights to human dignity and privacy in relation to the medical advancements involving genetic engineering, euthanasia …
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Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
… on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent in public debate on EPAS in Australia or the Netherlands, even though people with disabilities are often thought to be vulnerable in relation to EPAS policies. Disability perspectives are …
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Framing Death: The Use of Frames in Newspaper Coverage of and Press Releases about Death with Dignity
… the only state in America to make physician-assisted suicide an explicit legal right. Currently, the legality of physician-assisted suicide falls under the jurisdiction of each individual state. Had the United States Supreme Court ruled differently in a recent case, however, the issue would …
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The case for assisted dying/euthanasia in specific cases in South Africa with reference to the development of the South African and Canadian Jurisprudence under a human rights political order
… to the case for decriminalising physician assisted suicide through invoking a right to die with dignity (RDD). This argument is foundationally premised on the clear jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court which sets out the right to dignity and the value of dignity as the touchstone of …
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The Human Rights Implications of the Blanket Ban on Assisted Suicide in England and Wales: A Critical Examination of the Compatibility of the Suicide Act 1961 with the European Convention on Human Rights
The compatibility of the blanket ban on assisted suicide in England and Wales with the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR’) has been considered on a number of occasions by both the domestic courts and the European Court of Human Rights (‘ECtHR’). Following the ECtHR’s decision regarding …
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The Murderess: A True Crime Chamber Opera
… and explores the implications of physician-assisted suicide. The Murderess is full of suspenseful music and many bittersweet moments. Recurring motifs are used to create musical foreshadowing, and the opera features several arias suitable for standalone performance.
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The Euthanasia Debate: International Experience and Canadian Policy Proposals
… of the introduction of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide into Canadian society. The thesis argues that euthanasia is too simplistic an approach to address the complexities of end of life issues. The policy proposal under active discussion is profoundly mistaken. The language of euthanasia …
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Dealing with Death: Medical Students' Experiences with Patient Loss
… as well as their attitudes towards physician assisted suicide. Although these findings are not generalizable to any medical student population, they do provide important qualitative information as to how medical students experience and cope with death.
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The Limits of Rationality: Suicidality, Affectivity, and the Rational
… moral difficulties with the concept of rational suicide. After offering a comprehensive list of criteria used to define rationality in the bioethics literature, I turn to the scholarship of Susan Sherwin, Susan Wolf, Rosemarie Tong, Lisa Ikemoto and others to apply feminist critiques regarding …
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Peter Singer's proposed value of the "person" in "Rethinking Life and Death": A critical evaluation
… for abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, and assisted suicide. His proposal consists of four key points. First, there is the foundation for his proposal--rejecting creation for evolution. Second, there is the substance of his proposal--replacing the value of the "human" with the value of the …
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Eutanazijos baudžiamumas /
… separate types of euthanasia, and euthanasia and assisted suicide, trying to reveal qualification of criminal acts and criminal reasonability, according to the penal code of the Republic of Lithuania, that could be the most appropriate for the separate forms as criminal acts of euthanasia.
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Recurrent cancer and quality of life : a description of the experiences of oncology patients
… such as cost-effective economics, physician-assisted suicide, and quantity of life versus quality of life make the construct of quality of life even more important to ascertain.Quality of life can be an elusive construct to define as well as a difficult one to measure; however, recent …
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A Distinction Without A Moral Difference? An Essay On The Difference Between Palliative Sedation And Physician-Assisted Death
… the practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, which can be categorized as instances of physician-assisted death (PAD), to be beyond the scope of ethically appropriate health care. Many of these same individuals who oppose PAD, and the professional organizations they sometimes …
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Policy Referendums in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia: Constitutional Functions and Effects
… liquor licensing laws, and the legalisation of assisted suicide. In Australia, policy referendums (or ‘plebiscites’, as they are called there) have addressed topics including military conscription and marriage equality. In the United Kingdom, too, a wide range of examples exist, from across the …
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Studies of programmed cell death in the nematode caenorhabditis elegans
… Almost all cell deaths in C. elegans are "suicides"-they are caspase-dependent and apparently cell-autonomous, and do not require engulfment. During development of the C. elegans male, the cells B.alapaav and B.arapaav are generated during the late third-larval stage. During the early …
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Attitudes of nurses to euthanasia
… in February 2003, when Lord Joffe introduced an assisted suicide bill in the House of Lords. Euthanasia is an important issue for practising nurses as research and technological advancesa llow patientst o be resuscitated,given new treatments and kept alive using artificial means. Nurses are the …
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Begetting, Not Making, in the Brave New World: IVF Abstinence and Considerations for a Christian Ethic
… the majority positions on abortion, physician-assisted suicide, same-sex marriage, and transgenderism are incompatible with the majority view of qualified-embrace. Additionally, I express concerns about the opportunity for novel family structures that IVF opens up, which should elicit …
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A Legal Framework for the Assessment of a Voluntary Request for Medical Assistance in Dying
… exemption to the crime of counselling or aiding suicide, thereby allowing physicians and nurse practitioners to provide eligible patients with medical assistance in dying (MAID). Since Bill C-14, there has been further evolution in the law to allow patients to access MAID if their natural death …
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Euthanasie a její právní úprava
Cílem této práce je rozbor domácí právní úpravy dotýkající se euthanasie a rozbor takových úprav zahraničních. Autor si klade otázku vhodnosti takové úpravy v České republice. Současná právní úprava se euthanasii žádným způsobem nevěnuje, přijetí takové úpravy je tedy vhodné. Na to tuzemská odborná …
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