Ending life : ethics and the way we die /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it
- pt. I. Dilemmas about dying. 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
- pt. II. Historical, religious, and cultural concerns. 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?
- pt. III. Dilemmas about dying in a global future. 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.
