Right to Die in UK Law
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Older Lesbians, Gay Men and the ‘Right to Die’ Debate
This article considers the ‘right to die’ debate from the perspectives of older lesbians and gay men, drawing upon data gathered for a PhD in law. My argument is that older lesbians and gay men are...
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Complicity in Suicide
This article addresses the extent to which, if at all, a person may lawfully ‘help’ another person, for example a terminally ill spouse, to take his own life or submit to euthanasia. It considers w...... ... Inaddition, it looks at the position of a survivor of a suicide pact and whetherthere is a human right" to die. Other questions raised are: How near tovoluntary euthanasia is English law now? Is an advance decision ‘notreatment if I am terminally ill\xE2\x80" ... ...
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The Italian Constitutional Court and the constitutionality of the criminalisation of assisted suicide of patients suffering from serious and incurable diseases
On 16 November 2018, the Italian Constitutional Court addressed for the first time the controversial issue of the constitutionality of the criminalisation of assisted suicide of patients suffering ...... ... its judgment, the Court held that the crim- inalisation of assisted suicide is not contrary to the Constitution, rejecting the existence of a right to die, in line with the European Court of Human Rights case law. Nevertheless, the Constitutional Court recognised that in cases of patients ... ...
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Christian Conservatives Go to Court:Religion and Legal Mobilization in the united States and Canada
The American exceptionalism thesis holds that American political culture produces an unusually litigious society. The US Christian right has participated in litigation, ...... ... The American exceptionalism thesis holds that American political culture produces an unusually litigious society. The US Christian right has participated in litigation, especially in constitutional rights cases dealing with issues such as religious schools and abortion. However, since ... ...
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Informed Consent and End-of-Life Decisions: Notes of Comparative Law
Informed consent for medical treatment is often said to be a legal issue which is as much discussed as little understood. This article develops an analysis of the concept of informed consent partic...... ... countries into two models – one partially open and one partially closed – neither of them allowing for extreme solutions such a s the right to die, on the one hand, and the duty to be kept articially alive beyond one’ s own idea of human dignity, on the other ... According to such ... ...
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Book Review: Ethics, Legal Medicine and Forensic Pathology
... ... practitioners, Plueckhahn and Cordner examine issues surrounding the rights of patients, medical secrecy and computers, the right to live and the right to die, violations of human rights and human rights in the context of medical research. Having outlined some of ... ...
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Index to Volume 77 Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6
... ... the sexual transmission of 136 *How do you solve a problem of disclosure? 275 Human rights; imprisonment for public protection 22 Human rights, right to die 468 Human rights, treatment of 17-year-olds in police custody 281 Human rights; whether a sentence for domestic violence breach of 28 ... ...
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Examining the Foreseeable: Assisted Suicide as a Herald of Changing Moralities
After her intense battle for the decriminalization of assisted suicide in the Supreme Court of Canada, Sue Rodriguez committed suicide with medical assistance in 1994. Following her suicide, govern...... ... As Pirès (1998: 38) adequately summarized it, the ‘muscled right" of the state’ to inter- vene in the social and moral lives of its subjects passes essentially through criminal law. When moralities – more speci\xEF\xAC" ... ...
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A Right to Assist? Assisted Dying and the Interim Policy
There are few more controversial, or emotive, debates within the criminal law than that which surrounds the topic of euthanasia, questioning as it does the fundamental role of the law in regulating...
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Foucault’s Critical (Yet Ambivalent) Affirmation: Three Figures of Rights
Michel Foucault is not often read as a theorist of human rights. On the one hand, there is a tendency to read his works of the mid-1970s — his celebrated poststructuralist genealogies of subjectivi...... ... In the passage of his just quoted from ‘Society Must be Defended’ , he goes on famously, if somewhat elliptically, to call for a ‘new right that is both antidisciplinary and emancipated from the principle of sovereignty’ (2003b: 40). 4 This suggestion, along with Foucault’s own ... ...
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