Euthanasia: reconciling culture and human rights
Dublin Core
Title
Euthanasia: reconciling culture and human rights
Author
Goolam, Nazeem M.I.
Publisher
1996/00/00
Language
English
Publication Date
19960000
Abstract
The constitutional justifiability of euthanasia will depend upon interpretation of the right to life and the right to respect for and protection of one's dignity. Pertinent issues arising hereto are: In our new value-based constitutional interpretation, what are the values underlying our multi-cultural society? Issues of death and dying are inter-linked to a civilization's world view and its approach to human dignity. Western, African and Islamic approaches will be compared. Does euthanasia negate the essential content of the right to life and is its limitation on such right reasonable/justifiable in an open and democratic society based on freedom and equality.
Primary Classification
20.3.1
Secondary Classification
20.3.1;20.5.1;21.7;1.2
Primary keywords
allowing to die--[pri];attitudes to death--[pri];cultural pluralism--[pri];non-Western world--[pri];Western world--[pri]
Secondary keywords
Christian ethics;determination of death;euthanasia;Islamic ethics;legal aspects;right to die;sharia;value of life
Subject
Ghana;Great Britain;South Africa;United States
Journal Article
Medicine and Law 1996; 15(3): 529-536
Primary Document Type
ja
Call Number
journal
Bibliography
37 fn.
Collection
Citation
“Euthanasia: reconciling culture and human rights,” Islamic Medical & Scientific Ethics, accessed September 7, 2024, http://imse.ibp.georgetown.domains/items/show/33540.