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Ending Life : Ethics and the Way We Die.
Title:
Ending Life : Ethics and the Way We Die.
Author:
Battin, M.Pabst.
ISBN:
9781433700460
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction Ending Life: The Way We Do It, the Way We Could Do It -- Part 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 -- Part 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? -- Part 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 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
A sequel to the author's 1994 volume "The Least Worst Death". This work covers a range of 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," suicide, and more.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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