Ending life : ethics and the way we die /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Battin, M. Pabst
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
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