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xamines the issues surrounding the right to die and provides an overview of the topic.
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This book examines the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die, often in great pain and suffering. It covers the legal aspects and the politics of the controversy, analyzes the battles in state and federal courts, and supplies primary sources illustrating the political, medical, legal, religious, and ethical landscape of the right to die.
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La eutanasia adquirió en Colombia un nuevo significado con la historia de Ovidio González Correa, quien se convirtió en un personaje icónico por ser el primer ciudadano a quien se le practicó la eutanasia bajo el marco legal. A través de sus caricaturas, Matador -hijo de Ovidio- ilustró la lucha de un hombre por hacer realidad su deseo de morir dignamente. Este trabajo no solo propone la caricatura como una forma de bioética narrativa, sino que reconoce la manera como el caso de Ovidio se convir tió, a través de la mirada crítica de Matador, en un ejercicio público de pedagogía deliberativa. La autora muestra el poder de la imagen para abordar temas tan sensibles y complejos como la eutanasia y reafirma que educar en bioética es educar en conocimientos, valores, emociones y práctica de la coherencia.
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The theme of suicide was of paramount importance in Italy in the long nineteenth century, from the French revolution to the outbreak of World War I. A number of writers, intellectuals, politicians, and artists wrote about suicide, and a very high number of people killed themselves, for several reasons. There were suicides for love and for homeland, suicides for despair, and suicides for ennui. In Italy, once a very traditional, Catholic country, where suicide was very uncommon and rarely trea...
Suicide --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes
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Suicide --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes
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Law and literature. --- Right to die --- Right to die --- Euthanasia in literature. --- Suicide in literature. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Law and legislation.
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Suicide --- Suicide. --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Suicides --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes --- Health and social care
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Suicidal behavior --- Suicide --- Treatment. --- Prevention --- Evaluation. --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes
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Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. It will be of vital interest to any serious scholar of Durkheim's thought and to the sociologist looking for a fresh methodological perspective.
Suicide. --- Killing oneself --- Self-killing --- Death --- Right to die --- Causes --- Durkheim, Émile,
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