Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider
John B. Mitchell
Bok Engelsk 2007 John B Mitchell
| Utgitt | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , c2007
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| Omfang | VIII, 221 s.
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| Opplysninger | Contents: Cultural arguments that assisted suicide is always wrong -- Religious arguments for maintaining that suicide is morally "wrong" -- Utilitarian arguments against suicide -- The slippery slope phenomenon -- My path turns: looking at autonomy and moral claims to the right to assisted suicide -- Act utilitarianism as a moral basis for justifying assisted suicide -- The moral claim justifying physician-assisted suicide with the combination of autonomy and mercy -- Law and assisted suicide -- The question of whether legislatures should or should not legalize physician-assisted suicide.. - Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Emner | Assisted suicide
Euthanasia Terminal care - Moral and ethical aspects Suicide, Assisted - ethics assistert selvmord evtanasi etikk |
| ISBN | 0472069969. - 9780472099962
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