Assisted suicide for prisoners? Stakeholder and prisoner perspectives.

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ID Serval
serval:BIB_E289B451FEED
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Titre
Assisted suicide for prisoners? Stakeholder and prisoner perspectives.
Périodique
Death Studies
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Shaw D.M., Elger B.S.
ISSN
1091-7683 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0748-1187
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
40
Numéro
8
Pages
479-485
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: ARTICLEPublication Status: ppublish
Résumé
For a wider project on aging in prison, the authors interviewed 35 older prisoners and 24 stakeholders (prison staff, prison healthcare professionals, and policy makers) about healthcare for prisoners. In all, 6 prisoners and 3 stakeholders spontaneously expressed their attitudes concerning assisted suicide. Some prisoners seek assisted suicide for medical reasons and others because they regard spending the rest of their lives in prison as undignified. However, stakeholders identified several ethical and practical challenges in providing assisted suicide to prisoners. This article presents these perspectives on assisted suicide in prison and provides an ethical analysis of the issues raised.
Pubmed
Web of science
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09/08/2016 11:37
Dernière modification de la notice
20/08/2019 17:06
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