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Zusatztext A valuable and up-to-date resource for serious students of the European experiment with euthanasia and assisted suicide. Informationen zum Autor Heleen Weyers is Lecturer in Legal Theory at the University of Groningen. John Griffiths is Professor of Sociology of Law (Emeritus) at the University of Groningen. Maurice Adams is Professor of Democratic Governance and Rule of Law (vfund chair) and Professor of General Jurisprudence at Tilburg Law School. Klappentext This book is a successor to J Griffiths, A Bood and H Weyers, Euthanasia and Law in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Press 1998) which was widely praised for its thoroughness, clarity, and accuracy. The new book emphasises recent legal developments and new research, and has been expanded to include a full treatment of Belgium, where since 2002 euthanasia has also become legal. The book also includes descriptions written by local specialists of the legal situation and what is known about actual practice in a number of other European countries (England and Wales, France, Italy, Scandinavia, Spain, Switzerland). The book strives for as complete and dispassionate a description of the situation as possible. It covers in detail: - the substantive law applicable to euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, withholding and withdrawing treatment, use of pain relief in potentially lethal doses, palliative and terminal sedation, and termination of life without a request (in particular in the case of newborn babies); -the process of legal development that has led to the current state of the law; -the system of legal control and its operation in practice; -the results of empirical research concerning actual medical practice. A concluding part deals with some general questions that arise out of the material presented: Is the legalisation of euthanasia an example of the decline of law or should it, on the contrary, be seen as part and parcel of the increasing juridification of the doctor-patient relationship? Does the Dutch experience with legalised euthanasia support the idea of a 'slippery slope' toward a situation in which life-especially of the more vulnerable members of society-is less effectively protected? Is it possible to explain and to predict when a society will decide to legalise euthanasia? Zusammenfassung This book includes recent legal developments and research and has been expanded to include a treatment of Belgium where euthanasia is now legal. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 IntroductionPART I THE NETHERLANDS2 The Netherlands and the Dutch Health Care System3 Recent Developments in Dutch Euthanasia Law4 Dutch Law on Euthanasia and Other MBPSL5 Dutch MBPSL Law in Context and in Practice6 Termination of Life in NeonatologyPART II BELGIUM7 Belgium and the Belgian Health Care System8 The Legalisation of Euthanasia in Belgium9 Belgian Law on Euthanasia and Other MBPSL10 Belgian MBPSL Law in Context and in PracticePART III OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIESIntroduction to Part III11 England and Wales12 France13 Italy14 Scandinavia15 Spain 16 Switzerland17 Comparative DataPART IV THEMATIC REFLECTIONSIntroduction to Part IV18 The Nude Beach Phenomenon: Euthanasia and the Juridification of the Doctor–Patient Relationship19 Slithering Up the Slippery Slope20 ‘Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future'...
