New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia (eBook)

This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical professionals, and questions surrounding intention and causation, this book promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. The novel themes discussed in the revised edition include the role of markets, disability, gender, artificial intelligence, medical futility, race, and transhumanism. Ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and healthcare ethics, the book illustrates how social and technological developments will shape debates about assisted dying in the years to come.

Michael Cholbi is Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in the philosophy of death and dying. His authored books include Suicide: The Philosophical Dimensions (Broadview Press, 2011), Understanding Kant's Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Grief: A Philosophical Guide (Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2021). His edited books include Immortality and the Philosophy of Death (Rowman and Littlefield, 2015), Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Global Views on Choosing to End Life (Praeger, 2017), and Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2020, with T. Timmerman). He is the founder and coordinator of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying and an ordinary member of the Scottish Cross-Parliamentary Group on End of Life Choices.

Jukka Varelius is a philosopher whose work focuses on questions of moral philosophy and applied ethics. He has written on topics such as physician-assisted death, individual autonomy, informed consent, advance directives, the nature of mental and physical health, human enhancement, and ethical expertise in journals like Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Neuroethics, Bioethics, Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Journal of Value Inquiry, and Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. Varelius is also a co-editor of Adaptation and Autonomy: Adaptive Preferences in Enhancing and Ending Life (Springer, 2013).