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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Somerville, Margaret A., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
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.