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• Title:Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider / John B. Mitchell.
  
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• Author/Creator:Mitchell, John B. (John Barry), 1944-
  
• Published/Created:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2007.
  

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  • Call Number: WB60 .M565 2007
    
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  • Call Number: WB60 .M565 2007
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Assisted suicide.
  Euthanasia.
  Terminal care--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Suicide, Assisted--ethics--Personal Narratives.
  
• Description:x, 221 p. ; 23 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780472099962 (cloth : alk. paper)
  0472099965 (cloth : alk. paper)
  9780472069965 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0472069969 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Issue 1. Our culture does/does not subscribe to the notion of the "absolute sanctity of life"
  Cultural Arguments That Assisted Suicide Is Always Wrong
  Issue 2. Western religion does/does not plainly forbid suicide (and a fortiori assisted suicide or euthanasia)
  Religious Arguments for Maintaining That Suicide Is Morally "Wrong"
  Issue 3. Assuming a particular suicide or assisted suicide might be justified, condoning such a suicide or assisted suicide would/would not result in overall harm to the society
  Utilitarian Arguments against Suicide
  Issue 4. Permitting Physician-Assisted Suicide would/would not result in a "slippery slope"ending in involuntary termination of our most vulnerable and powerless citizens
  Slippery Slope Phenomenon
  Issue 5. Assisted suicide is/is not morally supported by the principle of "autonomy "
  My Path Turns: Looking at Autonomy and Moral Claims to the Right to Assisted Suicide
  Issue 6. Individuals can/cannot be mentally competent and/or rational if they choose suicide (and a fortiori assisted suicide or euthanasia) as the best choice for themselves
  Act Utilitarianism as a Moral Basis for Justifying Assisted Suicide
  Issue 7. Physician-assisted suicide is/is not morally supported by the combined concepts of "medical autonomy " and "mercy"
  Moral Claim Justifying Physician-Assisted Suicide with the Combination of Autonomy and Mercy
  Issue 8. One does/does not have a constitutional right to suicide, assisted suicide, or euthanasia
  Law and Assisted Suicide
  Issue 9. Legislation permitting physician-assisted suicide would/would not be sound social policy
  Question of Whether Legislatures Should or Should Not Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide.