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A Death of One's Own - Literature, Law, and the Right to Die (Paperback)
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A Death of One's Own - Literature, Law, and the Right to Die (Paperback)
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To be or not to be - who asks this question today, and how? What
does it mean to issue, or respond to, an appeal for the right to
die? In A Death of One's Own, the first sustained literary study of
the right to die, Jared Stark takes up these timely questions by
testing predominant legal understandings of assisted suicide and
euthanasia against literary reflections on modern death from the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rigorously interdisciplinary
and lucidly argued, Stark's wide-ranging discussion sheds critical
light on the disquieting bioethical and biopolitical dilemmas
raised by contemporary forms of medical technology and legal
agency. More than a survey or work of advocacy, A Death of One's
Own examines the consequences and limits of the three reasons most
often cited for supporting a person's right to die: that it is
justified as an expression of personal autonomy or self-ownership;
that it constitutes an act of self-authorship, of "choosing a final
chapter" in one's life; and that it enables what has come to be
called "death with dignity. Probing the intersections of law and
literature, Stark interweaves close discussion of major legal,
political, and philosophical arguments with revealing readings of
literary and testimonial texts by writers including Balzac,
Melville, Benjamin, and Amery. A thought-provoking work that will
be of interest to those concerned with law and humanities,
biomedical ethics, cultural history, and human rights, A Death of
One's Own opens new and suggestive paths for thinking about the
history of modern death as well as the unsettled future of the
right to die.
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