Go Unattended. A Review of Anthony Stavrianakis’ Book “Leaving. A Narrative of Assisted Suicide” (2019)

• Authors: Karolina Napiwodzka

Abstracts

EN

This is a review of Anthony Stavrianakis’ book Leaving. A Narrative of Assisted Suicide (University of California Press, 2019). Medically-assisted suicide still raises many issues and controversies of various types: ethical, legal, organizational and institutional. The situation varies greatly between countries, and depends on health care policies and socially recognised values. However, the overriding question is as follows: under what conditions should this form of death be allowed? Among the arguments that are well known, recognized and now tame, Stavrianakis’ research brings new light and perspective. The author goes deeper and searches for the real motives driving people to choose this manner of death. He sees the nuances and recounts the difficulties. In this article, I highlight aspects of Stavrianakis’ work that I find relevant and crucial for the issues considered.

Keywords

EN

Anthony Stavrianakis; assisted voluntary death; physician-assisted suicide; case-based reasoning; narrative approach; medical anthropology

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 141-146

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Karolina Napiwodzka

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

• https://orcid.org/0000000318457992

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2022.2.10

Biblioteka Nauki

29433353