Sterben mit Anspruch? Sterbehilfe aus gesellschaftstheoretischer und historischer Sicht

• Other Authors: Duncker, Simon (Editor), Schmidt, Almuth-Maria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Baden-Baden Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG 2023
• Series: Zeitgenössische Diskurse des Politischen 23
• Subjects: MBN; assisted suicide; euthanasia; German Federal Constitutional Court; health policy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

This anthology aims to address a void in the debates on assisted dying and assisted suicide, which are dominated by legal, medical, theological and practical-ethical perspectives. Liberal institutionalisation of assisted suicide has been within reach since the Federal Constitutional Court's 2020 ruling. The existential questions of determining and shaping a good life and death touched upon in this ruling challenge a democratic society to engage in political self-understanding. Is it not up to historically and socio-theoretically informed voices to conceptualise the historical upheaval critically in order to argue for an emancipatory perspective? This book is an attempt at such a conversation in six contributions. With contributions by Simon Duncker, PD Dr. Stefanie Graefe, Dr. Robin Iltzsche, Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho, Dr. Angelika Pillen und Dr. Nina Streeck.
This anthology aims to address a void in the debates on assisted dying and assisted suicide, which are dominated by legal, medical, theological and practical-ethical perspectives. Liberal institutionalisation of assisted suicide has been within reach since the Federal Constitutional Court's 2020 ruling. The existential questions of determining and shaping a good life and death touched upon in this ruling challenge a democratic society to engage in political self-understanding. Is it not up to historically and socio-theoretically informed voices to conceptualise the historical upheaval critically in order to argue for an emancipatory perspective? This book is an attempt at such a conversation in six contributions. With contributions by Simon Duncker, PD Dr. Stefanie Graefe, Dr. Robin Iltzsche, Prof. Dr. Thomas Macho, Dr. Angelika Pillen und Dr. Nina Streeck.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (160 p.)

ISBN

9783748937340
978-3-8487-7599-6

DOI

10.5771/9783748937340

Access

Open Access