1st Edition
Assisted Suicide and the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction
Chapter 1:The Legal Status of End-of-Life Practices: A Comparative Introduction
Chapter 2: Protecting Life and Assisting Death: Is Not Allowing Assisted Suicide a Violation of the Right to Life?
Chapter 3: Freedom from Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment: Does the Prohibition on Assisted Suicide Constitute Ill-Treatment?
Chapter 4: The Right to Choose the Manner and Timing of One's Death: A Re-examination of the Proportionality of the Ban on Assisted Suicide
Chapter 5: Justifying the Ban on Assisted Suicide: The Empirical Evidence
Chapter 6: Differential Treatment of End-of-Life Practices: Discrimination under Article 14 of the ECHR
Conclusions
Biography
Stevie Martin is a Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.
