BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph

Voluntary euthanasia and the common law / Otlowski, Margaret, xxxiii, 564 p.. - Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997.

ISBN 0-19-825996-4

LANGUAGE: ENG

INDEX WORDS:
* patientens rättigheter = rights of the patient = potilaan oikeudet
* rättsfall/rättspraxis = cases/case law = oikeustapaukset/oikeuskäytäntö
* medicinsk behandling = medical care = lääkehoito
* strafflag = criminal law = rikoslaki
* självmord = suicide = itsemurha
* grundlag/författning = constitution = perustuslaki/valtiosääntö
* eutanasi = euthanasia = eutanasia
* människovärde = human dignity = ihmisarvo
* EU = EU = EU
* Europarådet = Council of Europe = Euroopan Neuvosto
* AIDS = AIDS = AIDS
* jämlik behandling = equal treatment = tasa-arvoinen kohtelu
* självbestämmanderätt = self-determination = itsemääräämisoikeus
* rätt till privatliv = right to privacy = oikeus yksityiselämään
* katoliker = Catholics = katoliset
* Jehovas vittnen = Jehova's witnesses = Jehovan todistajat
* barmhärtighetsmord = mercy killing = armomurha
* sterilisering = sterilization = sterilisointi

GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: United Kingdom / USA / Canada / Australia / Netherlands

NOTE (GENERAL): Rights of the terminally ill act; Rights of the terminally ill regulations (full text)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph

Euthanasia, death with dignity and the law / Biggs, Hazel, xvi, 187 p.. - Oxford : Hart publ., 2001.

ISBN 1-84113-091-5

LANGUAGE: ENG

ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. To kill or not to kill : is that the euthanasia question. 2. Euthanasia and clinically assisted death : from caring to killing? 3. Consent to treatment but not to death. 4. Autonomy, self-determination and self-destruction. 5. Living wills and the will to die. 6. Is euthanasia a dignified death? 7. Conlusions : dignified life, dignified death and dignified law.

INDEX WORDS:
* strafflag = criminal law = rikoslaki
* barn = children = lapset
* abort = abortion = abortti
* mänskliga rättigheter = human rights = ihmisoikeudet
* barnamord = infanticide = lapsen murha
* självmord = suicide = itsemurha
* autonomi = autonomy = autonomia
* människovärde = human dignity = ihmisarvo
* eutanasi = euthanasia = eutanasia
* barmhärtighetsmord = mercy killing = armomurha
* WHO = WHO = WHO
* självbestämmanderätt = self-determination = itsemääräämisoikeus
* rättsfall/rättspraxis = cases/case law = oikeustapaukset/oikeuskäytäntö

GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Australia / Canada / United Kingdom / USA

NOTE (GENERAL): Canadian charter of rights and freedoms;

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