This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the
controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between
euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue
has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays
which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date. The urgency of
this issue can be gauged in recent developments such as the
legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands,
"how-to" manuals topping the bestseller charts in the United
States, and the many headlines devoted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who
has assisted dozens of patients to die. The essays address the
range of questions involved in this issue pertaining especially to
the fields of medical ethics, public policymaking, and social
philosophy. The discussions consider the decisions facing medical
and public policymakers, how those decisions will affect the
elderly and terminally ill, and the medical and legal ramifications
for patients in a permanently vegetative state, as well as issues
of parent/infant rights. The book is divided into two sections. The
first, "Euthanasia and the Termination of Life-Prolonging
Treatment" includes an examination of the 1976 Karen Quinlan
Supreme Court decision and selections from the 1990 Supreme Court
decision in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Featured are articles by law
professor George Fletcher and philosophers Michael Tooley, James
Rachels, and Bonnie Steinbock, with new articles by Rachels, and
Thomas Sullivan. The second section, "Philosophical
Considerations," probes more deeply into the theoretical issues
raised by the killing/letting die controversy, illustrating
exceptionally well the dispute between two rivaltheories of ethics,
consequentialism and deontology. It also includes a corpus of the
standard thought on the debate by Jonathan Bennet, Daniel Dinello,
Jeffrie Murphy, John Harris, Philipa Foot, Richard Trammell, and N.
Ann Davis, and adds articles new to this edition by Bennett, Foot,
Warren Quinn, Jeff McMahan, and Judith Lichtenberg.
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