The Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH has published a (German-language) study on euthanasia titled “Active and passive euthanasia. Medical, jurisprudential and philosophical aspects”. Active euthanasia is still one of the most vigorously disputed problems of medical ethics – as it can be seen in the current discussion on euthanasia and artificial life maintenance. Since the protection of life takes a central position in the European cultural tradition as well as in the medical ethos, the study takes up the question whether active euthanasia could be morally acceptable at all and documents the course of the German discussion so far. The study refutes the assumption that a discussion of active euthanasia in Germany can be shunned. The fact that passive euthanasia in Germany is allowed under certain circumstances, a demarcation from active euthanasia, however, remains difficult in praxis, aggravates in fact the demand for such a discussion.

 

The study “Active and passive euthanasia. Medical, jurisprudential and philosophical aspects” is published at Fink-Verlag and can be ordered at www.fink.de.

 

Thiele, Felix (Hrsg.) Aktive und passive Sterbehilfe. Medizinische, rechtswissenschaftliche und philosophische Aspekte, Fink-Verlag, Paderborn 2005, ISBN: 3-7705-3838 2

 

 

Contact for the press:

Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH

Dipl.-Päd. Sevim Kiliç

Wilhelmstraße 56

D-53474 Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler

Phone 02641/973-313

Fax 02641/973-320

Email sevim.kilic@ea-aw.de

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