Deciding on Death

And Medically Assisted Dying in Canada

Kent McNeil, Wayne Sumner (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

378 Seiten

2025
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774872126 (ISBN)

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Should Canadians have the right to medical assistance in dying? If so, under what conditions? Deciding on Death delves into the legal and political aspects of these controversial questions. In the early 1990s, Sue Rodriguez unsuccessfully challenged the criminalization of assisted dying. The Supreme Court of Canada subsequently reversed its position in a 2015 case initially brought by the family of Kay Carter, who had travelled abroad for access to an assisted death. Kent McNeil and Wayne Sumner not only analyze the landmark Rodriguez and Carter decisions but also contextualize them within legal and political history and carry the story forward to the present day. Legalization of medically assisted dying has finally given many Canadians with incurable medical conditions that cause them intolerable suffering the ability to choose the manner and timing of their death. Over fifteen thousand people per year now pursue that option. This timely book explains how we got here and the decisions that still lie ahead.

Kent McNeil is Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. He is the author of numerous works on the rights of Indigenous peoples, including Emerging Justice? Essays on Indigenous Rights in Canada and Australia, Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine's Case and Aboriginal Title, and Common Law Aboriginal Title. He is an honorary member of the Indigenous Bar Association and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. He lives in Victoria, British Columbia. Wayne Sumner is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Among his books are Abortion and Moral Theory, The Moral Foundation of Rights, Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law, and Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and recipient of the 2009 Molson Prize in Social Sciences and Humanities from the Canada Council for the Arts. He lives in Toronto.

Introduction

1 Life, Death, and the Law

2 The Rodriguez Case

3 The Debate Moves On

4 The Carter Case: The Trial Court

5 The Carter Case: The BC Court of Appeal

6 The Carter Case: The Supreme Court

7 Medical Assistance in Dying

Conclusion

Notes; Index of Cases; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Landmark Cases in Canadian Law
Verlagsort	Vancouver
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9780774872126 / 9780774872126
Zustand	Neuware