Suicide Tourism
Understanding the Legal, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Dimensions
Daniel Sperling
Reviews and Awards
"the monograph serves as a primer for anyone — be it academic, professional, or otherwise — who would wish to then pursue the topic in greater depth." - Glenys Williams, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Medical Law Review
"Through his in-depth discussion of the legal, moral and philosophical considerations raised by this practice, Sperling introduces the notion that arguments based on the moral and humanitarian obligation of states towards persons - regardless of their nationality - offer a more convincing justification for the need to acknowledge and regulate suicide tourism than the objections commonly raised against it, such as those based on consequentialism, and the irrationality of suicide as supported by Kantian deontology." - Kalima Carrigan, Sociology of Health & Illness
"Both in its empirical and in its moral/political analysis, there is much to recommend in this book to anyone interested in the issue of cross-border access to MAiD." - Wayne Sumner, Bioethics
"Sperling is to be commended for gathering and collating this material and for presenting different perspectives both from Switzerland and from the countries of origin." - David Albert Jones, The New Bioethics
