Here you can find my papers. When possible, I've linked to a free print archived on Philpapers or elsewhere, as well as the version of record, which usually requires institutional access.

Journal articles

  1. Isra Black, ‘Refusing Life Prolonging Medical Treatment and the ECHR’ (2018) 38(2) OJLS 299 (free link).
  2. Isra Black and Ásgeir Helgason, ‘Using motivational interviewing to facilitate death talk in end-of-life care: an ethical analysis’ (2018) 17 BMC Palliative Care 51 (open access).
  3. Ralf J Jox, Isra Black, Gian Domenico Borasio, and Johanna Anneser, ‘Voluntary stopping of eating and drinking: is medical support ethically justified?’ 15(1) BMC Med 186 (open access).
  4. Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg, 'Would it be ethical to use motivational interviewing to increase family consent to deceased solid organ donation?' (2014) 40(1) Journal of Medical Ethics 63-68. JME. Philpapers postprint.
  5. Penney Lewis and Isra Black, 'Adherence to the Request Criterion in Jurisdictions where Assisted Dying is Lawful? A Review of the Criteria and Evidence in the Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon and Switzerland' (2013) 41(4) Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 885-898. Philpapers postprint.
  6. Penney Lewis and Isra Black, 'Reporting and scrutiny of reported cases in four jurisdictions where assisted dying is lawful: a review of the evidence in the Netherlands, Belgium, Oregon and Switzerland' (2013) 13(4) Medical Law International 221-239. Philpapers postprint.

Case commentary

  1. Isra Black, 'Existential Suffering and The Extent of the Right to Physician Assisted Suicide in Switzerland: Gross v Switzerland' (2014) 22(1) Medical Law Review 109-118.
  2. Isra Black, 'A postscript to Gross v Switzerland' (2014) 22(4) Medical Law Review 656.
  3. Isra Black, 'Suicide assistance for mentally disordered individuals in Switzerland and the State’s positive obligation to facilitate dignified suicide: Haas c Suisse' (2012) 20(1) Medical Law Review 157-166. Philpapers postprint.

Contributions to edited books

  1. Isra Black, 'An advance decision to refuse treatment following the permanent loss of capacity to refuse life sustaining treatment and commentary' in Celia Kitzinger and Penney Lewis (eds) Advance Decisions to Refuse Treatment (working title) (forthcoming).
Advance decision. Feel free to use as you wish.
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Commentary. Please do not use without permission.
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Commissioned papers

  1. Penney Lewis and Isra Black, 'The effectiveness of legal safeguards in jurisdictions that allow assisted dying', Briefing Paper for the Commission on Assisted Dying (2012) (open access).

Thesis

  1. Isra Black, ‘Better off dead? Best interests physician assisted death’. Please contact me at isra.black [at] york.ac.uk for a copy.