Research Catalog

Title

Life's dominion : an argument about abortion, euthanasia, and individual freedom / Ronald Dworkin.

Author

Dworkin, Ronald

Publication

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Rawls, John, 1921-2002
• Dr. Joseph R. Stanton Human Life Issues Library and Resource Center former owner. sch
• Value of Life Committee former owner. sch

Description

273 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The author argues that personal conscience and the sacredness of life--not individual rights--should be given primacy in moral debates about abortion and euthanasia.

Subject

• Abortion > Law and legislation > United States
• Euthanasia > Law and legislation > United States
• Miscarriage
• Abortion
• Euthanasia
• Human rights
• Abortion > Law and legislation
• Euthanasia > Law and legislation
• Right to life > United States
• Right to life
• Abortion, Spontaneous
• Human Rights
• Abortion, Criminal
• Avortement > Droit
• Avortement > États-Unis
• Droit à la vie
• Droit à la vie > États-Unis
• Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
• Euthanasie > Droit
• Euthanasie > États-Unis
• Avortement > Droit > États-Unis
• Euthanasie > Droit > États-Unis
• Avortement spontané
• Euthanasie
• 44.02 philosophy and ethics of medicine
• Abortion > Law and legislation
• Rechtsphilosophie
• Schwangerschaftsabbruch
• Sterbehilfe
• Abortus provocatus
• Grondrechten
• Wetgeving
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The edges of life -- The morality of abortion -- What is sacred? -- Abortion in court : part I -- The constitutional drama -- Abortion in court : part II -- Dying and living -- Life past reason.

ISBN

• 0394589416
• 9780394589411

LCCN

92054800

OCLC

• 27013380
• SCSB-10101984

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library