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Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.
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Title:Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / Margaret Somerville.
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Author/Creator:Somerville, Margaret A.
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Published/Created:Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2001.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: W50 .S64 2001
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: W50 .S64 2001
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Euthanasia.
Assisted suicide.
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Medical Subjects: Euthanasia, Active.
Suicide, Assisted.
Attitude to Death.
Right to Die.
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Description:xix, 433 pages ; cm.
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Terms governing use:Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.
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Summary:A reasoned, passionate, and wide-ranging enquiry into the euthanasia debate and its consequences for individuals and society. We live at a time of unusually intense activity with respect to the evolution of a new cultural paradigm (on which to base a new societal one): the store of values, attitudes, beliefs, commitments, and myths.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-401) and index.
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ISBN:9780773522459 (paper ; alk. paper)
077352245X (paper ; alk. paper)
9780773522015 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0773522018 (cloth ; alk. paper)
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Contents:pt. 1. Euthanasia and the search for a new societal paradigm
1. Euthanasia, genetics, reproductive technologies, and the search for a new societal paradigm
pt. 2. Evolution of the euthanasia controversy
2. Should the grandparents die? : allocation of medical resources with an aging population
3. The song of death : the lyrics of euthanasia
4. "Death talk" in Canada : the Rodriguez case
5. The definition of euthanasia : a paradoxical partnership
6. Legalizing euthanasia : why now?
7. Euthanasia by confusion
8 (a) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a proposal / Torsten O. Nielsen
8 (b) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a rejection of Nielsen's proposal
8 (c) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Somerville's rejection / Torsten O. Nielsen
8 (d) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Nielsen's response
9. Executing euthanasia : a review essay
10. Why aren't physicians interested in the ethics and law of euthanasia? : a conference report
pt. 3. Untreated pain and euthanasia
11. Pain and suffering at interfaces of medicine and law
12. Ethics, law, and palliative treatment and care : the dying elderly person
13. The relief of suffering : human rights and medicine
14. Death of pain : pain, suffering, and ethics. pt. 4. Respect for dying people and euthanasia
15 (a) Death at a New York hospital / Engelbert L. Schucking
15 (b) Searching for the governing values, policies, and attitudes : commentary on "Death at a New York hospital"
16 (a) Human dignity and disease, disability, suffering : a philosophical contribution to the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate / Sylvia D. Stolberg
16 (b) Unpacking the concept of human dignity in human(e) death : comments on "Human dignity and disease, disability and suffering"
17 (a) Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die / Constantine John Falliers
17 (b) Taming the tiger : reflections on "Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die"
18. Debating A gentle death : a review essay
pt. 5. Euthanasia in the "public square"
19. Euthanasia in the media : journalists' values, media ethics, and "public square" messages
20. Euthanasia and the death penalty
pt. 6. Ethical and legal "tools" in the euthanasia debate
21. Labels versus contents : variance between philosophy, psychiatry, and law in concepts governing decision-making
22. Human rights and human ethics : health and health care.