Medical Aid in Dying: New Frontiers in Medicine, Law, and Culture

IF 2.4 2区社会学 Q1 LAW

Annual Review of Law and Social Science Pub Date : 2023-05-30 DOI:10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-110722-083932

M. Buchbinder, C. Cain

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Abstract

Medical aid in dying (MAID) has been a productive target for social scientific inquiry at the intersections of law and medicine over the past two decades. Insofar as MAID crystallizes and reflects personal and cultural understandings of key concepts such as individualism, dependency, dignity, and care, it is a rich site for social scientific theorizing. This article reviews and assesses the contributions of social scientific perspectives to research on MAID. We propose that social scientific research on MAID offers four distinctive contributions: its descriptive (rather than normative) orientation, its focus on cultural meanings, its insights into processes of knowledge production, and its comparative lens. The article's major sections describe ( a) attitudes toward MAID, ( b) MAID-related social movements, ( c) legalization approaches, and ( d) lived experiences of MAID in permissive jurisdictions. We conclude by reflecting on how MAID scholarship can inform social inquiry into other areas in which law and medicine converge. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 19 is October 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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死亡中的医疗援助:医学、法律和文化的新领域

在过去的二十年里，临终医疗救助（MAID）一直是法律和医学交叉领域社会科学研究的一个富有成效的目标。就MAID而言，它具体化并反映了个人和文化对个人主义、依赖、尊严和关怀等关键概念的理解，是社会科学理论的丰富场所。本文回顾和评价了社会科学视角对MAID研究的贡献。我们认为，对MAID的社会科学研究有四个独特的贡献：其描述性（而非规范性）取向、对文化意义的关注、对知识生产过程的洞察以及比较视角。文章的主要部分描述了（a）对MAID的态度，（b）与MAID相关的社会运动，（c）合法化方法，以及（d）MAID在许可管辖区的生活经历。最后，我们反思了MAID奖学金如何为法律和医学融合的其他领域的社会调查提供信息。《法律与社会科学年度评论》第19卷预计最终在线出版日期为2023年10月。请参阅http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates用于修订估算。

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