Ethical Issues in Suicide - Couverture souple

Battin, Margaret Pabst

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0132901552 ISBN 13 : 9780132901550

Editeur : Longman Higher Education, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Battin MPabst

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Engagingly written by one of the foremost experts on end-of-life issues, this volume provides a broad, systematic, and comprehensive exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. Author Margaret Pabst Battin probes the underlying ethical, religions, and philosophical issues surrounding self-caused death, and shows how they are crucial in the current debate over euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.

Ethical Issues in Suicide focuses on the central philosophical question: What rote may the individual play in his or her own death? Battin considers the arguments for and against suicide throughout history while offering a culturally diverse perspective. She takes both a short-range and long-range view of the issues, including a chapter-length treatment of physician-assisted suicide.

Thought-provoking, Ethical Issues in Suicide offers compelling insight into this highly controversial area.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Courses: Death & Dying, Medical or Bio-Ethics, Introduction to Ethics.

Using an exceptionally clear and easily readable style, this text provides a broad, systematic, and comprehensive exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. It probes the underlying ethical, religious and philosophical issues about self-caused death, and shows how they are crucial in the current debate.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Longman Higher Education
• Date d'édition: 1982
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0132901552
• ISBN 13: 9780132901550
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible