Protests of British anti-euthanasia groups; Parliament's avoidance of the issue; Surveys which indicate that the public is not against euthanasia; Passive and active euthanasia carried out in Great Britain.DeanMalcolmLancetDean M. Politics of euthanasia in the UK. Lancet. 1995 Mar 18; 345 (8951...
Euthanasia is illegal in all countries of the United Kingdom. However, as a devolved matter to the Scottish parliament, it is possible that at some point in the future different laws on euthanasia could apply within the UK. In 1935, Lord Moynihan and Dr. Killick Millard founded the British...
LONDON PERSPECTIVE : Politics of euthanasia in the UK 来自 Elsevier 喜欢 0 阅读量: 15 作者: Malcolm Dean 摘要: Even in areas where prenatal diagnostic testing is offered at no cost to women over a certain age, uptake of testing is not complete. We have studied the factors that affect ...
The wider process of euthanasia has been described by veterinarians as representing “the best and the worst” of the profession11,12, with 86.4% of deaths in dogs presenting to veterinary clinics recorded as involving euthanasia in the UK2. Dealing with animal death, and especially euthanasia,...
It is illegal in the UK. The House of Lords has held that it is not unlawful for doctors to withdraw life-supporting medical treatment from a patient in a persistent vegetative state who has no prospect of improvement, even where it is known that death would result in a matter of weeks....
According to several previously published studies, large populations of are sent to animal shelters in the UK and USA each year, and estimates indicate that a substantial percentage of the in such shelters are euthanased annually. However, anecdotal evidence indicates a different situation in Norway...
It is not permissible to challenge parliament’s right to enact a particular piece of legislation provided that the correct procedure was followed, this was explained inR (Countryside Alliance and others and othersv.Her Majesty's Attorney General and another[2007] UKHL 52 a case concerning the ...
is legal again if certain conditions are met. four times in the last 100 years, the uk parliament has given careful consideration to legalizing either mercy killing or assisted suicide and, on each occasion, has rejected the po...
National guidelines (e.g. in Germany or the UK) recommend one of the evidence-based psychotherapies mentioned above as first-line treatment [30]. They also stress the importance of careful delivery and supervision of these treatments by trained therapists, and the potential benefit of adjunctive ...
To our knowledge, only one study from the UK has investigated the possible association between euthanasing animals and being in favour of human euthanasia [7]. No such association was observed. However, the cited study included only veterinary students and recent graduates (32% response rate). ...