Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide /

Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Somerville, Margaret A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:
Euthanasia.
Assisted suicide.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Euthanasia and the search for a new societal paradigm
  • 1. Euthanasia, genetics, reproductive technologies, and the search for a new societal paradigm
  • pt. 2. Evolution of the euthanasia controversy
  • 2. Should the grandparents die? : allocation of medical resources with an aging population
  • 3. The song of death : the lyrics of euthanasia
  • 4. "Death talk" in Canada : the Rodriguez case
  • 5. The definition of euthanasia : a paradoxical partnership
  • 6. Legalizing euthanasia : why now?
  • 7. Euthanasia by confusion
  • 8 (a) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a proposal / Torsten O. Nielsen
  • 8 (b) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a rejection of Nielsen's proposal
  • 8 (c) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Somerville's rejection / Torsten O. Nielsen
  • 8 (d) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Nielsen's response
  • 9. Executing euthanasia : a review essay
  • 10. Why aren't physicians interested in the ethics and law of euthanasia? : a conference report
  • pt. 3. Untreated pain and euthanasia
  • 11. Pain and suffering at interfaces of medicine and law
  • 12. Ethics, law, and palliative treatment and care : the dying elderly person
  • 13. The relief of suffering : human rights and medicine
  • 14. Death of pain : pain, suffering, and ethics.
  • pt. 4. Respect for dying people and euthanasia
  • 15 (a) Death at a New York hospital / Engelbert L. Schucking
  • 15 (b) Searching for the governing values, policies, and attitudes : commentary on "Death at a New York hospital"
  • 16 (a) Human dignity and disease, disability, suffering : a philosophical contribution to the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate / Sylvia D. Stolberg
  • 16 (b) Unpacking the concept of human dignity in human(e) death : comments on "Human dignity and disease, disability and suffering"
  • 17 (a) Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die / Constantine John Falliers
  • 17 (b) Taming the tiger : reflections on "Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die"
  • 18. Debating A gentle death : a review essay
  • pt. 5. Euthanasia in the "public square"
  • 19. Euthanasia in the media : journalists' values, media ethics, and "public square" messages
  • 20. Euthanasia and the death penalty
  • pt. 6. Ethical and legal "tools" in the euthanasia debate
  • 21. Labels versus contents : variance between philosophy, psychiatry, and law in concepts governing decision-making
  • 22. Human rights and human ethics : health and health care.

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