Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why “Design for Death” is Tricky?

Gamman, Lorraine and Gunasekera, Pras (2019) Understanding Suicide and Assisted Dying – Why “Design for Death” is Tricky? In: Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things. Bloomsbury, pp. 175-193. ISBN 9781474277204

Tricky Design: The Ethics of Things

Type of Research:	Book Section
Creators:	Gamman, Lorraine and Gunasekera, Pras
Description:	This chapter will try to address the gap in knowledge of how ‘design’, which is about pragmatic arrangements that can be envisioned and created, can be a space that can facilitate autonomy for end-of-life and assisted dying decisions in the context of ‘sanctity of life’ discourses. Of course, legally binding advanced health care directives (to refuse treatment) are not per se ‘assisted dying’, even if it is an end-of-life decision that is legal in the UK. It is also one that can leave some individuals with no other choice, when medical treatment is stopped, than to starve to death.
Official Website:	https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tricky-design-9781474277204/
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed:	Tricky Design, Social Design, Assisted Dying
Publisher/Broadcaster/Company:	Bloomsbury
Your affiliations with UAL:	Colleges > Central Saint Martins Research Centres/Networks > Design Against Crime at the Innovation Centre (DAC)
Date:	23 April 2019
Date Deposited:	16 Aug 2019 13:43
Last Modified:	05 Oct 2021 09:05
Item ID:	14801
URI:	https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/14801

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