Arguing euthanasia
Subtitle: the controversy over mercy killing, assisted suicide, and the "right to die"
By: edited by Jonathan D. Moreno.
Contributors: Moreno, Jonathan D.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Euthanasia -- Moral and ethical aspects; Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects; Assisted suicide -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: Arguing Euthanasia brings together for the first time an impressive array of viewpoints from both sides of this emotionally charged question as well as voices from the gravely ill and their loved ones. Beginning with a selection of pieces from the New England Journal of Medicine, where the debate was ignited in 1988, Arguing Euthanasia features essays by such outspoken advocates of active euthanasia as Timothy Quill and Sidney Hook, and important social critics and commentators such as Nat Hentoff, Leon R. Kass, and Ronald Dworkin. As they probe the legal and ethical issues at the heart of physician-assisted suicide, these essays offer invaluable insights not only for those caring for the terminally ill but for anyone concerned with the deeper philosophical conflict between enduring life-oriented values and personal dignity that lies at the heart of this controversy.
Notes: "A Touchstone book."