The thesis analyses the principles and philosophies behind the public submissions into the Northern Territory's Rights of the Terminally Ill Act [1995], which mirror wider debate over euthanasia since 1945. It argues that religious prohibitions against euthanasia have been largely replaced by slippery slope arguments that effectively obstruct law reform
Notes
Submitted to the School of History, Heritage and Society of the Faculty of Arts and Education, Deakin University
Degree conferred 2010
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Deakin University, Victoria, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references (leaves 201-222)
