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Physician Assisted Suicide : Expanding The Debate

  • Physician Assisted Suicide : Expanding The Debate
  • Attribution

    edited by Margaret P. Battin, Rosamond Rhodes, and Anita Silvers
  • Publication Details

    Book, Routledge, 1998
  • Description

    In its two recent cases about the hotly debated issue of physician assisted suicide, the United States Supreme Court concluded its majority opinion with the declaration that, “Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. By offering views from a range of disciplines, including bioethics, law, medicine, and religion this book draws attention to the variety of questions to be addressed, for example: * Should assistance in suicide be confined to the terminally ill–or should any rational person be able to ask for a doctor’s help in ending life? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  R726 .P496 1998  AVAILABLE

The Least Worst Death : Essays In Bioethics On The End Of Life

  • The Least Worst Death : Essays In Bioethics On The End Of Life
  • Attribution

    Margaret Pabst Battin
  • Publication Details

    Book, Oxford University Press, 1994
  • Description

    An extensive introduction identifies the principal ethical issues, and the book explores such dilemmas as rationing health care for the elderly, whether there is a “duty to die,” counseling in rational suicide, the risks of abuse with active euthanasia, religious views about suicide, whether suicide can be understood as a fundamental human right, and others. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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     (UPPER LEVEL)  R726 .B33 1994  AVAILABLE

Ethics In The Sanctuary : Examining The Practices Of Organized Religion