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Author | : Lloyd Steffen |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2014-07-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1451487576 |
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In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges.
Author | : Wesley J. Smith |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2010-10-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 145877841X |
Download The Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (Large Print 16pt) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When his teenaged son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever following weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor refused. Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this verdict. He demanded treatment and threatened legal action. The doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon afterwards he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley Smith recounts in his groundbreaking new book, The Culture of Death. Smith believes that American medicine ''is changing from a system based on the sanctity of human life into a starkly utilitarian model in which the medically defenseless are seen as having not just a 'right' but a 'duty' to die.'' Going behind the current scenes of our health care system, he shows how doctors withdraw desired care based on Futile Care Theory rather than provide it as required by the Hippocratic Oath. And how ''bioethicists'' influence policy by considering questions such as whether organs may be harvested from the terminally ill and disabled. This is a passionate, yet coolly reasoned book about the current crisis in medical ethics by an author who has made ''the new thanatology'' his consuming interest.
Author | : James Stacey Taylor |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0199751137 |
Download The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death brings together original essays that both address the fundamental questions of the metaphysics of death and explore the relationship between those questions and some of the areas of applied ethics in which they play a central role.
Author | : Peter Singer |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1996-04-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780312144012 |
Download Rethinking Life and Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In a reassessment of the meaning of life and death, a noted philosopher offers a new definition for life that contrasts a world dependent on biological maintenance with one controlled by state-of-the-art medical technology.
Author | : Jeff McMahan |
Publisher | : Oxford Ethics Series |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780195169829 |
Download The Ethics of Killing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, Jeff McMahan looks at various issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
Author | : David Lamb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2020-07-20 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1000056325 |
Download Death, Brain Death and Ethics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Originally published in 1985, this book examines the concept of death against the background of dramatic changes in medical technology. The book argues that ‘brain death’ can be precisely defined and that a biological concept of death such as ‘brain death’ can be philosophically well-grounded. It examines traditional criteria for death and various formulations of the concept of death in both medical literature and philosophical texts. Definitions of ‘brain death’ – some of which have become statute law – are critically examined. The author also examines ethical and social policy questions which arise out of attempts to redefine the boundaries of life.
Author | : Matthew H. Kramer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2011-12-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0199642184 |
Download The Ethics of Capital Punishment Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Taking a fresh look at a central controversy in criminal law theory, The Ethics of Capital Punishment presents a rationale for the death penalty grounded in a theory of the nature of evil and the nature of defilement. Original, unsettling, and deeply controversial, it will be an essential reference point for future debates on the subject.
Author | : James M. Humber |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1994-02-04 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1592594484 |
Download Physician-Assisted Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
Author | : Lloyd H. Steffen |
Publisher | : Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 080069919X |
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"For the living, death has a moral dimension. When we confront death and dying in our own lives and in the lives of others, we ask questions about the good, right, and fitting as they relate to our experiences of human mortality. When others die, the living are left with moral questions--questions that often generate personal inquiry as to whether a particular death was "good" or whether it was tragic, terrifying, or peaceful. In The Ethics of Death, the authors, one a philosopher and one a religious studies scholar, undertake an examination of the deaths that we experience as members of a larger moral community. Their respectful and engaging dialogue highlights the complex and challenging issues that surround many deaths in our modern world and helps readers frame thoughtful responses. Unafraid of difficult topics, Steffen and Cooley fully engage suicide, physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, capital punishment, abortion, and war as areas of life where death poses moral challenges." -- Publisher's description.
Author | : Adrienne E. Strong |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-11-03 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520973917 |
Download Documenting Death Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women.