Nikita Zorin, MD, PhD, Russia
MD, PhD, Russian Society for Evidence Based Medicine vice-president; Russian Philosophical Society member; French speaking psychiatrist association member; International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research member; World Federation for Mental Health member, Moscow, Russia
Killing me softly, or euthanasia as a product of liberal economics
What is really behind the legalisation of euthanasia and its rapid progress around the world? How is it integrated into the economic and cultural development of society? How did medicine begin to transform itself into its opposite, proposing killing on an equal or instead of curing, forming a whole class of professional executioners within itself? How did the replacement of concepts take place, creating an oxymoron: “forced good death”? Language games as a tool of perversion of meaning. What is the role of the psychiatrist, and is he capable of judging the intolerability of the suffering of those who are being put to death, their “free will”, their “awareness” of what they are asking for, and even more so, of what they are not asking for?
Samara State Medical University,
Samara Regional Clinical Psychiatric Hospital,
The Pan-European Mental Health Coalition,
Psychiatric Studies Centre,
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh),
Vladimir Zelman Center for Neurobiology and Brain Rehabilitation, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech),
Republican Specialized Scientific and Practical Medical Center for Mental Health,
Women's Mental Health Section, World Psychiatric Association,
Association of University Teachers of Psychiatry,
Mental Health Research Institute,
Institute of Personalized Psychiatry and Neurology,
ALTAI STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY,
