Reviews round-up
Do Not Go Gentle
by Kathleen Stock
2 of 3 critics positive
5 reviews: 1 rave, 1 positive, 1 mixed; 2 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
Rave
Read the review ↗“closes the case once and for all”
Kathleen Stock’s polemic against assisted dying closes the case once and for all
Positive
Read the review ↗“The philosopher offers a measured and reasonable argument against assisted dying”
Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock review – the case against euthanasia | Philosophy books
Mixed
Read the review ↗“But what about the evermore elderly people whom it barely acknowledges?”
Go gentle: assisted dying and the old
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗“The philosopher's new book on assisted dying is part of a developing critique of moral libertarianism”
Kathleen Stock, born-again conservative
Verdict not stated
Read the review ↗“Three new books show how emotive and morally inflexible arguments helped stall Kim Leadbeater’s bill”
How the assisted dying debate became a tribal war
Verdicts are read from each outlet's own headline and summary; quotes are their words, credited and linked. Where a paywalled summary does not give the critic's view, we say so rather than guess. How it works.
