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Arguing Euthanasia - The Controversy over Mercy Killing, Assisted Suicide, and the "Right to Die" (Paperback) Loot Price: R455
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Arguing Euthanasia - The Controversy over Mercy Killing, Assisted Suicide, and the "Right to Die" (Paperback): Jonathan D Moreno

Arguing Euthanasia - The Controversy over Mercy Killing, Assisted Suicide, and the "Right to Die" (Paperback)

Jonathan D Moreno; Edited by Jonathan D Moreno

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The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar proposals on their ballots.

Arguing Euthanasia brings together for the first time an impressive array of viewpoints from both sides of this emotionally charged question as well as voices from the gravely ill and their loved ones. Beginning with a selection of pieces from the New England Journal of Medicine, where the debate was ignited in 1988, Arguing Euthanasia features essays by such outspoken advocates of active euthanasia as Timothy Quill and Sidney Hook, and important social critics and commentators such as Nat Hentoff, Leon R. Kass, and Ronald Dworkin.

As they probe the legal and ethical issues at the heart of physician-assisted suicide, these essays offer invaluable insights not only for those caring for the terminally ill but for anyone concerned with the deeper philosophical conflict between enduring life-oriented values and personal dignity that lies at the heart of this controversy.

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Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 1995
First published: October 1995
Authors: Jonathan D Moreno
Editors: Jonathan D Moreno
Dimensions: 216 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-684-80760-7
Categories: Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical ethics
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Euthanasia
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LSN: 0-684-80760-2
Barcode: 9780684807607

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