Ending life: ethics and the way we die

This work is a sequel to the author's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for...

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Main Author: Battin, Margaret Pabst 1940- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford[u.a.] Oxford University Press 2005
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:This work is a sequel to the author's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. This new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die," and suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia, in both American and international contexts. As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretically adroit but draw richly from historical sources, fictional techniques, and factual material.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:viii, 344 p. 25 cm
ISBN:0195140265
9780195140262
0195140273
9780195140279

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