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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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The Contemporary Debate Over Physician-Assisted Suicide
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On the Permissibility of Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Challenging the Case for Physician-Assisted Suicide
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: Views from the Clinic
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Visions of the Future for Physician-Assisted Suicide
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About this book
The debate over suicide and assisting suicide is ancient and contentious and intertwined with questions about the permissibility of voluntary active euthanasia or mercy killing. Responses to these issues can be divided into those who defend physician-assisted suicide and many of these other activities and those who object. But those who object may do so on principled grounds in that they regard these activities as wrong in all cases, or non-principled, in that they believe there are more prudent, less disruptive or more efficient policies. The authors in this book sort out these responses and look at the assumptions underlying them. Several of these authors give startling new interpretations that a culture gap, deeper and wider than that in the abortion debate, exists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?
Book Subtitle: What are the Issues?
Editors: Loretta M. Kopelman, Kenneth A. Ville
Series Title: Philosophy and Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9631-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0365-3Published: 30 November 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-9631-7Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0376-7418
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0080
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 252
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Philosophy of Medicine, Surgery, General Surgery