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  Intention and Causation in Medical Non-killing: The Impact of Criminal Law Concepts on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (Biomedical Law and Ethics Library) (Paperback) By (author) Glenys Williams

  

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  Short Description for Intention and Causation in Medical Non-killingAnalyzing the criminal concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this book explores a range of disciplines and offers an alternative legal framework based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence.
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  • Publisher: Routledge Cavendish
  • Published: 21 December 2006
  • Format: Paperback 248 pages
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  • Categories: Constitutional & Administrative Law | Medical & Healthcare Law | Medicolegal Issues | Neurology & Clinical Neurophysiology | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
  • ISBN 13: 9780415423021 ISBN 10: 0415423023
  • Sales rank: 613,089

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• Analyzing the concepts of intention and causation in euthanasia, this timely new book explores a broad selection of disciplines, including criminal and medical law, medical ethics, philosophy and social policy and suggests an alternative solution to the one currently used by the courts, based on grading different categories of killing into a formalized justificatory defence. This book explores how culpability, blameworthiness and liability are ascribed and how ascertaining "mens rea" and "actus reus" are problematic in an end-of-life decision-making scenario. Williams criticizes the way the courts rely so exclusively on the criminal concepts of intention and causation in such medical scenarios and examines and raises awareness of the inadequate and inappropriate legal framework within in which judges have to operate. Topical and compelling, this significant contribution argues for a more open and honest approach which would, in turn, provide the certainty, consistency and equality required by the law. This is a quintessential read for all students studying medical and healthcare law and the legal aspects of health and medicine.