Book: `Merciful Release': The History of the British Euthanasia Movement * Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground
2002; BMJ; Volume: 325; Issue: 7360 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.325.7360.396
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health
ResumoN D A Kemp Manchester University Press, £14.99, pp 242 ISBN 0 7190 6124 5 Roger S Magnusson Yale University Press, £25, pp 325 ISBN 0 300 09439 6 Rating:: ![Graphic][1] ![Graphic][2] ![Graphic][3] ; ![Graphic][4] ![Graphic][5] ![Graphic][6] ![Graphic][7] Euthanasia might be a controversial issue, but one could be forgiven for thinking that we've heard it all before. The entrenched positions and arguments for and against the practice are well known, and nothing much seems to be shifting in the legal arena. Two new books challenge this assessment. Kemp's ‘Merciful Release’ rewrites the history of the British euthanasia movement and the antecedents to the present debate. He gives a chronological overview from the 1870s, when the topic was first discussed in the public domain, through to the present time. This is a carefully researched book that argues that the history of euthanasia is often told backwards from the perspective of contemporary … [1]: /embed/inline-graphic-1.gif [2]: /embed/inline-graphic-2.gif [3]: /embed/inline-graphic-3.gif [4]: /embed/inline-graphic-4.gif [5]: /embed/inline-graphic-5.gif [6]: /embed/inline-graphic-6.gif [7]: /embed/inline-graphic-7.gif
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