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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Glucksberg and Quill Controversies: The Judiciary's (Non)Resolution of the Assisted Suicide Debate -- 2.1 The Washington Due Process Litigation -- 2.2 The New York Equal Protection Litigation -- 2.3 The Final Battle? The Supreme Court Does (and Does Not) Decide -- 2.4 The Aftermath of Glucksberg and Quill -- 3. The Debate over History -- 3.1 Which History? -- 3.2 The Project -- 3.3 The Ancients -- 3.4 Early Christian History -- 3.5 English Common Law -- 3.6 Colonial American Experience -- 3.7 The Modern Consensus on Suicide and Its Assistance -- 3.8 The Euthanasia Movement -- 3.9 Prevailing Law Today -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 4. Arguments from Fairness and Equal Protection: If a Right to Refuse, Then a Right to Assisted Suicide? -- 4.1 An Act/Omission Distinction? -- 4.2 A Causation-Based Distinction? -- 4.3 Toward an Intent-Based Distinction: The Insight of the Double Effect Principle -- 4.4 Some (Initial) Arguments against Double Effect: Conflating Intent and Foresight -- 4.5 Distinguishing Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia from the Right to Refuse: Intending versus Foreseeing Death -- 4.6 Some (Additional) Criticisms of Double Effect as Applied to the Assisted Suicide Debate -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5. Casey and Cruzan: Do They Intimate a Right to Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia? -- 5.1 The "Reasoned Judgment" Test and Its Critics -- 5.2 Casey-Based Arguments -- 5.3 Cruzan-Based Arguments -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6. Autonomy Theory's Implications for the Debate over Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- 6.1 The Autonomy Debate -- 6.2 The Neutralist View of Autonomy -- 6.3 The Harm Principle's Competing View -- 6.4 Perfectionism and Autonomy -- 6.5 The Implications of Autonomy Theory for the Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debate. |
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7. Legalization and the Law of Unintended Consequences: Utilitarian Arguments for Legalization -- 7.1 The Dutch Experience: "Virtually Abuse-Free"? -- 7.2 The Oregon Experience: An "All-Too Conscientious" Statutory Regime? -- 7.3 Legalization and Other Unintended Consequences -- 7.4 Decriminalization as a "Costless" Enterprise? -- 7.5 How to "Balance" the Costs and Benefits of Legalization? -- 7.6 Conclusion -- 8. Two Test Cases: Posner and Epstein -- 8.1 Posner's Utilitarian Case for Assisted Suicide -- 8.2 Posner's and Epstein's Libertarian Case for Assisted Suicide -- 9. An Argument against Legalization -- 9.1 The Inviolability of Human Life -- 9.2 What Does It Mean to Respect Human Life as a Basic Good? -- 9.3 Some Objections -- 9.4 The Future of the Oregon Experiment? -- 10. Toward a Consistent End-of-Life Ethic: The "Right to Refuse" Care for Competent and Incompetent Patients -- 10.1 The Inviolability of Life and the "Right to Refuse" for Competent Persons -- 10.2 The "Right to Refuse" and Infant Patients -- 10.3 The "Right to Refuse" and Incompetent Adult Patients -- 10.4 Conclusions -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Certain American Statutory Laws Banning or Disapprovingof Assisted Suicide -- Appendix B: Statistical Calculations. |
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