Research Catalog

Title

Ending life : ethics and the way we die / Margaret Pabst Battin.

Author

Battin, M. Pabst.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

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Description

viii, 344 pages; 25 cm

Subject

• Assisted suicide > Moral and ethical aspects
• Euthanasia > Moral and ethical aspects
• Death > Moral and ethical aspects
• Suicide, Assisted
• Euthanasia
• Death
• Morals
• Ethics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it -- 1. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- 2. Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it -- 3. Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS -- 4. Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die? -- 5. Case consultation : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself -- 6. Robeck -- 7. Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide -- 8. July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?) -- 9. High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment -- 10. Terminal procedure -- 11. The ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing? -- 12. Genetic information and knowing when you will die -- 13. Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span -- 14. Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die? -- 15. New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech -- 16. Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration" -- 17. Safe, legal, rare? : physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future.

ISBN

• 0195140265 (alk. paper)
• 0195140273 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2004049541
• 9780195140262
• 9780195140279

OCLC

• ocm55019148
• SCSB-5178681

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries