Euthanasia : Clinical Practice and the Law

Clinical Practice and the Law [Paperback] [Oct 01, 1994] Gormally...

...an impressive volume. The approach used in the volume as a whole is in line with the Linacre Centre's stated aim to make intelligible to non-Christians (and non-Catholics, for that matter) the Church's moral teaching in its bearings on the practice of medicine. This is the common morality, whose central tenets belong to the moral heritage of civilised societies.... Anyone willing to see argument met with argument will benefit from reading this book. -- Robert Ombres OP, Priests and People, January 1995

A splendid pro-life book, which has already had a striking influence in England, is now available here. Pro-lifers understandably feel that the news media and the world of scholarship are arrayed on the side of death... In the academic world, even as interest in euthanasia runs at fever pitch and ringing endorsements of 'cultural diversity' resound, current medical ethics texts crowd into an astonishingly narrow band on the spectrum of positions and perspectives. With one or two isolated exceptions, the available texts run the gamut of positions from Y to Z: from authors who argue for active euthanasia to those whose dissent consists in defending passive euthanasia.

Onto this bleak scene arrives a remarkable book... It contains a wealth of valuable analyses and strong arguments against euthanasia. Gormally and the other distinguished authors represented in the book are first rate scholars and resolute defenders of the vulnerable. -- John Dolan PhD, National Right to Life News, Sept 7 1994

The book on euthanasia that those of us who work in bioethics always recommend- and refer to ourselves time and again as the best ever statement of the classical position was published in 1982 by the Linacre Centre. Euthanasia and Clinical Practice has become 'a classic' not just among Catholic cognoscenti but more widely, for instance on the course lists of secular universities. That its relevance endures despite the passing fashions in bioethics and the new directions in the euthanasia debate is a tribute to the authority not just of its authors but of their arguments.

This new volume is a representative fruit of a foundation which has built a reputation not just as the premier Christian bioethics institute in Britain, but as one of the finest in the world, Christian or secular...Bravo, Linacre Centre. -- Anthony Fisher OP, New Blackfriars Vol 76, No 893 (May 1995): 258-60.

This book is a wonderful antidote for anyone tempted to despair of the obfuscation, duplicity and just plain muddleheadedness of many of the participants in the public debate about euthanasia If you are interested in the debate over euthanasia (and none of us can afford not to be) beg, borrow or buy this book. -- Karin Clark, News Weekly, April 23, 1994