Assisted Dying - by Graham Box & Kenneth Chambaere (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Once almost universally prohibited, assisted dying is now legal in a growing number of countries across Europe, North America, Australasia and South America. In the UK, as elsewhere, the question remains deeply contested, raising profound legal, moral and practical challenges.

This book draws on extensive original research into Westminster Parliamentary debates, as well as international evidence from jurisdictions where assisted dying is legal, in order to clarify the key arguments for and against reform.

Examining principles, stakeholder perspectives and judicial rulings, it offers the knowledge, context and sensitivity to enable readers to critically engage with one of the most complex and pressing challenges in contemporary practice and policy.

Review Quotes

"The book offers a thorough and timely analysis of this complex issue. The authors present engaging frameworks to help interested readers, especially health care professionals and those in training, to think deeply and reach their own conclusions." Catherine de Mars, former senior partner and GP trainer, Chineham Medical Practice, Basingstoke

"Box and Chambaere help readers step past the rhetoric and have marshalled an impressive discussion of the key ethical issues and evidence to help people reach their own views about the contested issue of assisted dying." Ben White, Queensland University of Technology

"If you want to better understand why debates on assisted dying are consistently happening around the world, then read this book now." John Troyer, University of Bath Centre for Death and Society

"A notably sophisticated analysis of stakeholder views, and an overview of what can be learnt from assisted dying internationally." Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon)

About the Author

Graham Box, a former NHS manager and patient charity CEO, has taught Politics at Oxford University, Law at Reading University and currently lectures in Ethics at the Foundation for International Education.

Kenneth Chambaere is Professor of Public Health, Sociology & Ethics of the End of Life at the End-of-Life Care Research Group at Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel.