A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia - Softcover

Syme, Rodney

 
9780522855036: A Good Death: An Argument for Voluntary Euthanasia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0522855032 ISBN 13: 9780522855036
Verlag: Melbourne University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

A Good Death is a candid and provocative account of the experiences of many terminally ill people Dr Rodney Syme has assisted to end their lives. Over the past thirty years Syme has challenged the law on voluntary euthanasia—at first clandestinely and now publicly—risking prosecution in doing so. He again risks prosecution for writing this book.
A Good Death is a moving journey with those who came to Syme for help, and a meditation on what it means in our culture to confront death. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices he faces working within the grey areas of the law.
In this important book, Rodney Syme argues for the end of the unofficial 'conspiracy' of silence within the medical profession and the decriminalisation of voluntary euthanasia in Australia. Through Syme's determination to tell the stories of those who he has assisted to die with dignity, A Good Death also draws wider lessons of value for those who find themselves in a similar situation.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rodney Syme has been in medical practice for forty-five years, primarily as a urological surgeon. He was Chair of the Victorian Section of the Urological Society of Australasia in 1990-92, and chair of the Urology Study Group of the Cancer Council of Victoria in 1992-94. He has had extensive experience with cancer patients and with people with severe spinal injuries. He has been an advocate for physician-assisted dying for nearly twenty years, and the President of the Dying With Dignity Victoria for ten years.

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Verlag
Melbourne University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0522855032
ISBN 13 
9780522855036
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
301
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