When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbjörn Tännsjö examines three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights theory, and utilitarianism. The implications of each theory are worked out for different kinds of ki…
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Questions about the dignity of the human person give rise to many of the most central and hotly disputed topics in bioethics. In A Defense of Dignity: Creating Life, Destroying Life, and Protecting the Rights of Conscience, Christopher Kaczor investigates whether each human bein…
Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest life-and-death decisions - literally - will therefore be made by someone else. They will decide whether w…
Seven in ten Americans over the age of age of sixty who require medical decisions in the final days of their life lack the capacity to make them. For many of us, our biggest, life-and-death decisions - literally - will therefore be made by someone else. They will decide whether …
"Daniel Callahan--whose cofounding of The Hastings Center in 1969 was one of the most important milestones in the history of bioethics--has written on an uncommonly wide range of issues over a long career. They have moved back and forth between clinical care of individual patien…
Daniel Callahan's life time work in bioethics has again and again returned to the root problems of health, progress technology, and death. How we think about each of them individually and in relation to each other will shape the way we approach and deal with the most common dile…
"Daniel Callahan--whose cofounding of The Hastings Center in 1969 was one of the most important milestones in the history of bioethics--has written on an uncommonly wide range of issues over a long career. They have moved back and forth between clinical care of individual patien…
"The first book-length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying, Leaving is a narrative account of five case histories of people who ended their lives with assistance in Switzerland. Anthony Stavrianakis places his narrative within a larger story about how to approach a…
Hospital intensive care units have changed when and how we die-and not always for the better. The ICU is a new world, one in which once-fatal diseases can be cured and medical treatments greatly enhance our chances of full recovery. But, paradoxically, these places of physical h…
In place of living wills, which have fundamentally misunderstood the problems people face during life-threatening illness, researcher and practicing ICU physician Samuel Morris Brown advocates a system of individualized guidance alongside fundamental reform. In this provocative …
Human dignity and assisted death
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Assisted dying is still an extremely contested topic in Bioethics. Despite the strongly influential role human dignity plays in this debate, it still has not received the appropriate, multi-faceted treatment it deserves. Studies show that the notion of dignity already plays an i…
Human dignity and assisted death
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Assisted dying and human dignity are two extremely contested topics in Bioethics. This volume offers the first book-length attempt to bring both together. Its authors develop detailed philosophical analyses of dignity, and how it relates to assisted suicide and euthanasia.