Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
Part of For and Against
- Authors:
- Gerald Dworkin, University of Illinois, Chicago
- R. G. Frey, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Sissela Bok, Harvard University, Massachusetts
- Date Published: November 1998
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521587891
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The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians. The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent. This book supplies that need. Two prominent philosophers, Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey present the case for legalization of physician-assisted suicide. One of the best-known ethicists in the US, Sissela Bok, argues the case against.
Read more- Offers exciting new approach to the issues involved
- Focuses on key contemporary social and political issues will ensure broad interest
- has just two essays written from opposing points of view in a concise, non-technical style
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- Date Published: November 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521587891
- length: 152 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 12 mm
- weight: 0.27kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey: Introduction
1. The nature of medicine
2. Distinctions in death
3. The fear of a slippery slope
4. Public policy and physician-assisted suicide
Part II Sissela Bok:
5. Choosing death and taking life
6. Suicide
7. Euthanasia
8. Physician-assisted suicide.
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