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The least worst death : essays in bioethics on the end of life /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battin, M. Pabst
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
Subjects:
Terminal care > Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to die.
Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects.
Humans > Death > Ethics
Ethics, Medical > collected works.
Right to Die > collected works.
Suicide, Assisted > collected works.
Table of Contents:
  • The least worst death
  • The eclipse of altruism: the moral costs of deciding for others
  • Is there a duty to die? age rationing and the just distribution of health care
  • Dying in 559 beds: efficiency, "best buys," and the ethics of standardization in national health care
  • Euthanasia: the fundamental issues
  • A dozen caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in the Netherlands
  • Fiction as forecast: euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?
  • Voluntary euthanasia and the risks of abuse
  • Suicide: the basic issues
  • Manipulated suicide
  • Prohibition and invitation : the paradox of religious views about suicide
  • Assisted suicide: can we learn from Germany?
  • Assisting in suicide: seventeeen questions physicians and mental-health professionals should ask
  • Suicide: a fundamental human right?