Voluntary Assisted Dying : Law? Health? Justice?

By: Carter, David JContributor(s): Fleming, Daniel JMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2022Copyright date: �2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781760465056Subject(s): Euthanasia--Law and legislationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voluntary Assisted DyingDDC classification: 344.9404197 LOC classification: KU1531Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Synopsis -- Introduction -- 1. The Constitution of 'Choice': Voluntary Assisted Dying in the Australian State of Victoria -- 2. Palliative Care as a Necropolitical Technology -- 3. Supported Decision-Making: A Good Idea in Principle but We Need to Consider Supporting Decisions about Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 4. The Compassionate State? 'Voluntary Assisted Dying', Neoliberalism, and a Virtue Without an Anchor -- 5. The Neoliberal Rationality of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 6. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Animals and Euthanasia -- 7. A Desire unto Death: The Warnings of Girard and Levinas against the Sanitisation of Euthanasia -- 8. Gosport Hospital, Euthanasia and Serial Killing -- 9. A Criminal Legal Biopolitics: The Case of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- List of Contributors.
Summary: Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying in 2019, a 'new moment' in the governance of life and death has opened up within the Australian context. This new moment demands new questions be asked regarding the regime and its effects in this new era for law, health care and justice.
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Intro -- Synopsis -- Introduction -- 1. The Constitution of 'Choice': Voluntary Assisted Dying in the Australian State of Victoria -- 2. Palliative Care as a Necropolitical Technology -- 3. Supported Decision-Making: A Good Idea in Principle but We Need to Consider Supporting Decisions about Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 4. The Compassionate State? 'Voluntary Assisted Dying', Neoliberalism, and a Virtue Without an Anchor -- 5. The Neoliberal Rationality of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- 6. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Animals and Euthanasia -- 7. A Desire unto Death: The Warnings of Girard and Levinas against the Sanitisation of Euthanasia -- 8. Gosport Hospital, Euthanasia and Serial Killing -- 9. A Criminal Legal Biopolitics: The Case of Voluntary Assisted Dying -- List of Contributors.

Since the introduction of voluntary assisted dying in 2019, a 'new moment' in the governance of life and death has opened up within the Australian context. This new moment demands new questions be asked regarding the regime and its effects in this new era for law, health care and justice.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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