Living and dying well /
Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in hi...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1996]
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| Series: | Critical issues in social justice.
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Objectives and Background Principles
- Ch. 2. Genetic Screening
- Ch. 3. The Human Genome Project
- Ch. 4. Death and Its Criteria
- Ch. 5. Organ Transplants
- Ch. 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues
- Ch. 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues
- Ch. 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards
- Ch. 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues
- Ch. 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition
- Ch. 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform
- Ch. 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan
- Ch. 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues
- Ch. 14. The Great Health-Care Debate
- Ch. 15. Epilogue.