Law, Immunization and the Right to Die

by Jennifer Hardes

Law, Immunization and the Right to Die focuses on the urgent matter of legal appeals and judicial decisions on assisted death. Drawing on key cases from the United Kingdom and Canada, the book focuses on the problematic paternalism of legal decisions that currently deny assisted dying and questions why the law fails to recognize what many describe as "compassionate motives" for assisted death. When cases are analyzed as discourses that are part...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138943207
• ISBN13: 9781138943209
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.4"