Ending life : ethics and the way we die /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Dilemmas about dying
- Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
- Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it
- Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS
- Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die?
- Case consultaion : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself
- Robeck
- Historical, religious, and cultural concerns
- Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide
- July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?)
- High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment
- Terminal procedure
- The ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing
- Dilemmas about dying in a global future
- Genetic information and knowing when you will die
- Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span
- Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die?
- New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech
- Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration"
- Safe, legal, rare? Physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future