| Description |
viii, 344 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it -- pt. I. Dilemmas about dying. 1. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- 2. Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it -- 3. Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS -- 4. Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die? -- 5. Case consultation : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself -- 6. Robeck -- pt. II. Historical, religious, and cultural concerns. 7. Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide -- 8. July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?) -- 9. High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment -- 10. Terminal procedure -- 11. The ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing? -- pt. III. Dilemmas about dying in a global future. 12. Genetic information and knowing when you will die -- 13. Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span -- 14. Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die? -- 15. New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech -- 16. Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration" -- 17. Safe, legal, rare? : physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future. |
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Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Death -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Death -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| ISBN |
0195140265 |
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0195140273 paperback |
| Standard No. |
9780195140262 |
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9780195140279 |
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