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• Title:Ending life : ethics and the way we die / Margaret Pabst Battin.
  
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• Author/Creator:Battin, M. Pabst.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB60 .B329 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Assisted suicide--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Euthanasia--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Death--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Description:viii, 344 p. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0195140265
  0195140273 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Introduction : ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it
  1. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
  2. Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it
  3. Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS
  4. Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die?
  5. Case consultation : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself
  6. Robeck
  7. Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide
  8. July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?)
  9. High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment
  10. Terminal procedure
  11. ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing?
  12. Genetic information and knowing when you will die
  13. Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span
  14. Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die?
  15. New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech
  16. Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration"
  17. Safe, legal, rare? : physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future.