New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the
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Michael Cholbi Jukka Varelius Editors
New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine Volume 64
Series editor David N. Weisstub University of Montreal Fac. Medicine, Montreal, Québec, Canada
The book series International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine comprises volumes with an international and interdisciplinary focus. The aim of the Series is to publish books on foundational issues in (bio) ethics, law, international health care and medicine. The 28 volumes that have already appeared in this series address aspects of aging, mental health, AIDS, preventive medicine, bioethics and many other current topics. This Series was conceived against the background of increasing globalization and interdependency of the world’s cultures and governments, with mutual influencing occurring throughout the world in all fields, most surely in health care and its delivery. By means of this Series we aim to contribute and cooperate to meet the challenge of our time: how to aim human technology to good human ends, how to deal with changed values in the areas of religion, society, culture and the self-definition of human persons, and how to formulate a new way of thinking, a new ethic. We welcome book proposals representing the broad interest of the interdisciplinary and international focus of the series. We especially welcome proposals that address aspects of ‘new medicine’, meaning advances in research and clinical health care, with an emphasis on those interventions and alterations that force us to re-examine foundational issues. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6224
Michael Cholbi · Jukka Varelius Editors
New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
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Editors Michael Cholbi Department of Philosophy California State Polytechnic University Pomona, CA USA
Jukka Varelius Department of Behavioural Sciences and Philosophy University of Turku Turku Finland
ISSN 1567-8008 ISSN 2351-955X (electronic) International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine ISBN 978-3-319-22049-9 ISBN 978-3-319-22050-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22050-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015945601 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulatio
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