Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new...
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Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide prevention, AIDS, suicide bombing, serpent-handling and other religious practices that pose a risk of death, genetic prognostication, suicide in old age, global justice and the "duty to die." It also examines suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and euthanasia in both American and international contexts.As with the earlier volume, these new essays are theoretically adroit but draw richly from historical sources, fictional techniques, and ample factual material.
Introduction : ending life : the way we do it, the way we could do it31Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide172Euthanasia : the way we do it, the way they do it473Going early, going late : the rationality of decisions about physician-assisted suicide in AIDS694Is a physician ever obligated to help a patient die?885Case consultation : Scott Ames, a man giving up on himself1086Robeck1137Collecting the primary texts : sources on the ethics of suicide1638July 4, 1826 : explaining the same-day deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (and what could this mean for bioethics?)1759High risk religion : informed consent in faith healing, serpent handling, and refusing medical treatment18610Terminal procedure22611The ethics of self-sacrifice : what's wrong with suicide bombing?24012Genetic information and knowing when you will die25113Extra long life : ethical aspects of increased life span26914Global life expectancies and international justice : a reemergence of the duty to die?28015New life in the assisted-death debate : scheduled drugs versus NuTech30116Empirical research in bioethics : the method of "oppositional collaboration"31617Safe, legal, rare? : physician-assisted suicide and cultural change in the future321
