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Intention and causation in medical non-killing : the impact of criminal law concepts on euthanasia and assisted suicide / Glenys Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Biomedical law and ethics libraryPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge-Cavendish, 2007Description: xvii, 221 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1844720276
  • 9781844720279
  • 0415423023
  • 9780415423021
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.4204197 22
LOC classification:
  • KD3410.E88 W55 2007
Contents:
1. The concept of intention -- 2. The principle of double effect -- 3. Acts and omissions -- 4. Causation -- 5. Does a patient who refuses treatment commit suicide? -- 6. Does a doctor who withdraws treatment assist in a patient's suicide? -- 7. Reforms and the future.
Review: "This book criticises the way in which the courts rely so exclusively on the criminal concepts of intention and causation in medical end-of-life decision-making. Although they provide the means by which culpability, blameworthiness, and liability are ascribed, ascertaining the mens rea and actus reus elements is problematic in the medical scenario where a doctor's role and responsibilities (when a patient dies following the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or the administration of pain-killing medication) distinguishes him from a 'cold-blooded' murderer." "In looking at a wide range of disciplines, this book aims to raise awareness as to the inadequate and inappropriate legal framework within which judges have to operate. It sets out the way in which they have devised certain 'defences' for doctors, and suggests a solution based on formalising these 'defences' and creating a medical mercy-killing type offence which would specifically take into account the relevance of motive, context and consent. This would enable a more open and honest approach which would, in turn, provide the certainty, consistency and equality required by the law."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-210) and index.

1. The concept of intention -- 2. The principle of double effect -- 3. Acts and omissions -- 4. Causation -- 5. Does a patient who refuses treatment commit suicide? -- 6. Does a doctor who withdraws treatment assist in a patient's suicide? -- 7. Reforms and the future.

"This book criticises the way in which the courts rely so exclusively on the criminal concepts of intention and causation in medical end-of-life decision-making. Although they provide the means by which culpability, blameworthiness, and liability are ascribed, ascertaining the mens rea and actus reus elements is problematic in the medical scenario where a doctor's role and responsibilities (when a patient dies following the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment or the administration of pain-killing medication) distinguishes him from a 'cold-blooded' murderer." "In looking at a wide range of disciplines, this book aims to raise awareness as to the inadequate and inappropriate legal framework within which judges have to operate. It sets out the way in which they have devised certain 'defences' for doctors, and suggests a solution based on formalising these 'defences' and creating a medical mercy-killing type offence which would specifically take into account the relevance of motive, context and consent. This would enable a more open and honest approach which would, in turn, provide the certainty, consistency and equality required by the law."--BOOK JACKET.

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