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Title

Voluntary euthanasia : experts debate the right to die / edited by A.B. Downing and Barbara Smoker.

Publication

London : P. Owen, 1986.

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Additional Authors

• Downing, A. B.
• Smoker, Barbara

Description

303 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Euthanasia and the right to death.

Subject

• Voluntary Euthanasia Society
• Euthanasia
• Right to die
• Right to Die

Note

• Rev. ed. of: Euthanasia and the right to death. 1969.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 302-303.

Contents

Part one. The case for and against euthanasia -- Euthanasia : the human context / A.B. Downing -- Death : the biological aspect / Eliot Slater -- The principle of euthanasia / Antony Flew -- The patient's right to die / Joseph Fletcher -- Voluntary euthanasia : a Christian view / W.R. Matthews -- A non-utilitarian case against voluntary euthanasia / Luke Gormally -- A rejoinder to religious and non-consequentialist objections / Babrara Smoker -- Euthanasia legislation : some non-religious objections / Yale Kamisar -- Euthanasia legislation : a rejoinder to the non-religious objections / Glanville Williams -- A time to be born and a time to die / G.A. Gresham -- The need for euthanasia / Christian Bernard -- Active voluntary euthanasia / Pieter V. Admiraal -- The doctor's dilemma today / David H. Clark -- The hospice movement / Colin Brewer -- Suicide and voluntary euthanasia : historical perspective / Roanan Gillon -- The case for rational suicide / Mary Rose Barrington -- Part two. The voluntary euthanasia movement -- The Voluntary Euthanasia Society -- Arthur Koestler and suicide -- The legal position (England and Wales) -- Societies for voluntary euthanasia.

ISBN

0720606519

OCLC

12665473

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library