Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide /
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2001]
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Euthanasia and the search for a new societal paradigm
- Euthanasia, genetics, reproductive technologies, and the search for a new societal paradigm
- Pt. 2. Evolution of the euthanasia controversy
- Should the grandparents die? Allocation of medical resources with an aging population
- The song of death: the lyrics of euthanasia
- "Death talk" in Canada: the Rodriguez case
- The definition of euthanasia: a paradoxical partnership
- Legalizing euthanasia: why now?
- Euthanasia by confusion
- Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada: a proposal by Torsten O. Nielsen
- Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada: a rejection of Nielsen's proposal
- Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada: a response to Somerville's rejection by Torsten O. Nielsen
- Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada: a response to Nielsen's response
- Executing euthanasia: a review essay
- Why aren't physicians interested in the ethics and law of euthanasia? A conference report
- Pt. 3. Untreated pain and euthanasia
- Pain and suffering at interfaces of medicine and law
- Ethics, law, and palliative treatment and care: the dying elderly person
- The relief of suffering: human rights and medicine
- Death of pain: pain, suffering, and ethics
- Pt. 4. Respect for dying people and euthanasia
- Death at a New York Hospital by Englebert L. Schucking
- Searching for the governing values, policies, and attitudes: commentary on "Death at a New York Hospital"
- Human dignity and disease, disability, suffering: a philosophical contribution to the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate by Sylvia D. Stolberg
- Unpacking the concept of human dignity in human(e) death: comments on "Human Dignity and Disease, Disability and Suffering"
- Prothanasia: personal fulfilment and readiness to die by Constantine John Falliers
- Taming the tiger: reflections on "Prothanasia: Personal Fulfilment and Readiness to Die"
- Debating A Gentle Death: a review essay
- Pt. 5. Euthanasia in the "public square"
- Euthanasia in the media: journalists' values, media ethics, and "public square" messages
- Euthanasia and the death penalty
- Pt. 6. Ethical and legal "tools" in the euthanasia debate
- Labels versus contents: variance between philosophy, psychiatry, and law in concepts governing decision-making
- Human rights and human ethics: health and health care.