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Death Talk, First Edition

The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Autor: Margaret Somerville
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Brožovaná
Vydavateľ: McGill-Queen's University Press
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Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we no...

Informácie o knihe

Autor
Margaret Somerville
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Brožovaná
Vydalo
2001
Stránok
464
EAN
9780773522459
Enbook ID
04917941
Vydavateľ
McGill-Queen's University Press
Hmotnosť
664
Rozmery
156 x 246 x 33

Kompletný popis

Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death?; There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine; Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through "death talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the euthanasia debate as it unfolds, is captured through including Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions to this debate.

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