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Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives Euthanasia: Opposing Viewpoints Language and Reality at the End of Life Suicide and Euthanasia, Are They Ever Right? The Case Against Assisted Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care The Slippery Slope of Assisted Suicide When Killing is Wrong: Physician-Assisted Suicide and the Courts |
Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives Keown, John, ed. Euthanasia Examined: Ethical, Clinical and Legal Perspectives. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.Whether euthanasia or assisted suicide should be legalized is one of the most pressing and profound questions facing legislators, health care professionals, their patients, and indeed all members of society. This book aims to inform the debate by acquainting readers with some of the major ethical, legal, clinical, and theological issues involved. The eighteen essays it contains are authoritative, balanced and readable. They are authoritative in that they have been commissioned from some of the world's leading experts, balanced in that they reflect divergent viewpoints (including a vigorous debate between two eminent philosophers), and readable in that they should be readily intelligible to the general reader. Posted on June 26, 2004. |