Whose Choice? A Qualitative Inquiry into Professionals’ Moral Positions on Euthanasia in Belgium
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13627782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ilay Yesil (0000-0003-2955-3963, Sociology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1453-1472 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228221123153 |
| PMID | 36036183 |
| OpenAlex | W4293516623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 48 |
Death, which was once accepted as an incalculable otherworld journey initiated by the cessation of biological functions, became an object of socio-political regulation in late modernity. Euthanasia, a form of managing death and dying, has grown in popularity with accompanying controversy. What remains under-explored, however, are conceptions of selfhood animating different framings in moral and ethical debates around euthanasia from professional perspectives. Drawing on 20 interviews with physicians and other key professionals in the euthanasia field in Belgium, this study finds that moral division among participants lies in different attributes of selfhood related to euthanasia, which emphasize autonomous, social, or embodied aspects. This paper demonstrates that the diminishing role of religion in appeasing existential anxiety about death, combined with an increasing emphasis on choice as the basis of selfhood, facilitates the contemporary desire to control one's own demise
Demise · Epistemology · Existentialism · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Psychoanalysis · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Law · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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Human Agency and Language
A Social History of Dying
The Logic of Care
The sacred canopy
The social construction of reality
After Virtue
The Intimate. Polity and the Catholic Church
Qualitative Researching
A Secular Age
Secularization
Controlling death
Assisted dying in New Zealand
Feminist Perspectives on Empathy as an Epistemic Skill and Caring as a Moral Virtue
What the Doctor Would Prescribe
Paradox of choice and the illusion of autonomy
Between morality and rationality
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Economies of Dying
Shrinking Transcendence, Expanding Religion
Body, Image and Affect in Consumer Culture
Embracing Dependency
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Doing Case Study
Theory Construction in Qualitative Research
The Metaphysics of Death
Modernity, Self-Identity and the Sequestration of Death
Educating the Body
The 'Good Carer
Affect as Methodology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |