Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider
Title:
Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider
Author:
Mitchell, John B. (John Barry), 1944-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007]
©2007
Physical Description:
x, 221 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
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.
Electronic Access:
Table of contents onlyPublisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0712/2007008826.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0809/2007008826-d.html
ISBN:
9780472099962
9780472069965
Format :
Book