Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights - Stevie Martin

Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights

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Buch | Hardcover
220 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62822-2 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Locating assisted suicide within the broader medical end-of-life context and drawing on the empirical data available from the increasing number of permissive jurisdictions, this book provides a novel examination of the human rights implications of the prohibition on assisted suicide in England and Wales and beyond. Assisted suicide is a contentious topic and one which has been the subject of judicial and academic debate internationally. The central objective of the book is to approach the question of the ban’s compatibility with the European Convention on Human Rights afresh; freed from the constraints of the existing case law and its erroneous approach to the legal issues and selective reliance on empirical data. The book also examines the compatibility of the ban on assisted suicide with rights which have either been erroneously disregarded or not considered by either the domestic courts or the European Court of Human Rights. Having regard to human rights jurisprudence more broadly, including in the context of abortion, the research and analysis undertaken here demonstrates that the ban on assisted suicide violates the rights of a significant number of individuals to life, to freedom from torture or inhuman or degrading treatment and to private life. Such analysis does not depend on a strained or contrived approach to the rights at issue. Rather, the conclusions flow naturally from a coherent, logical application of the established principles governing those rights.

While the focus of the book is the Suicide Act 1961, the conclusions reached have implications beyond England and Wales, including for the other devolved jurisdictions and international jurisdictions. Beyond courts and legislators, it will be a valuable resource for students of human rights and medical law, as well as medical and legal practitioners and academics working in human rights and end-of-life care.

Stevie Martin is a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Introduction

Chapter 1:The Legal Status of End-of-Life Practices: A Comparative Introduction

Chapter 2: Protecting Life and Assisting Death: Is Not Allowing Assisted Suicide a Violation of the Right to Life?

Chapter 3: Freedom from Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Does the Prohibition on Assisted Suicide Constitute Ill-Treatment?

Chapter 4: The Right to Choose the Manner and Timing of One's Death: A Re-examination of the Proportionality of the Ban on Assisted Suicide

Chapter 5: Justifying the Ban on Assisted Suicide: The Empirical Evidence

Chapter 6: Differential Treatment of End-of-Life Practices: Discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHR

Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
Zusatzinfo 2 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 471 g
Themenwelt Studium 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Medizinrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-367-62822-8 / 0367628228
ISBN-13 978-0-367-62822-2 / 9780367628222
Zustand Neuware
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