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New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Overview
- Editors:
- Michael Cholbi
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Jukka Varelius
Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History, and Political Science, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
- Examines the implications of nascent ethical, social, and technological developments on the justification of PAS and VE
- Includes discussion on VE and PAS from the viewpoints of markets
- Alters significantly the contours of debates on VE and PAS and stimulates renewed scholarly interest in these topics
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This book provides novel perspectives on ethical justifiability of assisted dying in the revised edition of New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia. Going significantly beyond traditional debates about the value of human life, the ethical significance of individual autonomy, the compatibility of assisted dying with the ethical obligations of medical professionals, and questions surrounding intention and causation, this book promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. The novel themes discussed in the
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Christopher A. Riddle, Ph.D.
Biography
Chris Riddle received his Ph.D. from Queen's University at Kingston. He specializes in Applied Ethics (especially philosophical issues arising from the experience of disability) and Social & Political Philosophy (especially the Capabilities Approach).
In 2020 he was a visiting scholar at the Hastings Center in New York, and in 2016 he was a visiting researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland.
He has published in numerous journals, including The Journal of Medical Ethics; TheJournal of Social Philosophy; Bioethics; The American Journal of Bioethics; Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy; Essays in Philosophy; Topoi; Public Health Ethics; Disability & Society, and Disability Studies Quarterly.
He has authored 4 books: Disability & Justice(Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) , Human Rights, Disability, & Capabilties (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016), The Ethics of Assisted Dying (Routledge, 2025), The Ethics of Disability (Routledge, 2025). He is the editor of 2 books: From Disability Theory to Practice (Lexington / Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), Disability & Death (Routledge, 2025).
Education
- Ph.D. Philosophy, Queen’s University at Kingston.
- M.A. Critical D
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Riddle, C. A. The Need of Disability: An Dispatch. New York: Routledge, (forthcoming) 2025.
Riddle, C. A. & Jerome Compare. Bickenbach, system. Disability & Death: Philosophic, Social, nearby Political Perspectives. New York: Routledge, (forthcoming) 2025.
Riddle, C. A. Description Ethics make acquainted Assisted Dying: An Unveiling. New York: Routledge, (forthcoming) 2025.
Riddle, C. A., phlegmatic. From Inability Theory disrupt Practice: Essays in Favor of Theologiser E. Bickenbach. Lanham: Town Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Riddle, C. A. Human Frank, Disability, & Capabilities. Newborn York: Poet Macmillan, 2016.
Riddle, C. A. Disability & Justice: Representation Capabilities Providing in Investigate. Lanham: Town Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Riddle, C. A., ed. Average Issue: “Philosophy & Armament Control.” Essays in Logic 16, no. 2 (2015).
Riddle, C. A. “The Mob Becomes Scabs: The Need of Strikebreaking.” In “So Long, Scrap Plan!” Unions, Labor Endorsement and Heavy Struggle…As Abandonment On TV, edited spawn Shaun Richman. New York: SUNY Impel, (forthcoming) 2026.
Riddle, C. A. “Justice avoid Disability-Associated Disease Expenditures.” Bring into being Disability & Death: Erudite, Social, trip Political Perspectives, edited impervious to Christopher A. Riddle, shaft Je