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Singer shows just why our traditional ethic of life and death is collapsing all around us - but instead of lamenting the fact, as traditional moralists do, he sees it as an opportunity to move forward to a more soundly based approach. In discussing themes like euthanasia, brain death, abortion, and the treatment of patients in a persistent vegetative state, Singer boldly discards the old rhetoric and meaningless cliches about the sanctity of human life. Instead he produces a fresh account of when life should be regarded as precious and worth preserving, and when it should not be. Using provocative case studies, Singer vividly describes the break-up of our current ethic of life and death. He asks penetrating questions like: What are the results of the classic Dutch experiment with voluntary euthanasia? What are its implications for the future and will a similar system work in the United States? Is the definition of death in terms of "brain death" a medical judgment? Or is it an ethical choice based on our need for organs and the emotional and financial futility of keeping human beings in this state alive? Why do we consider it wrong to take organs from a baby born without a brain, but acceptable to take them from an ape? Is it really possible to defend abortion on the grounds of "choice" or do we have to make up our minds first about the status of the fetus and whether it has rights in the first place? With Rethinking Life and Death, Peter Singer describes a world that has already begun to be revolutionized by twenty-first-century technology, and in doing so, provides us all with a profound reexamination of the ethics that govern how we live and how we die.
Medical ethics --- Life --- Death --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Medicine --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Dying --- End of life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy --- Medical ethics. --- Biologische doeleinden. Bio-ethiek; bioethiek. Übermensch. Medische deontologie --- 17.023.33 Biologische doeleinden. Bio-ethiek; bioethiek. Übermensch. Medische deontologie --- 17.023.33 --- 174.2 --- 174.2 Beroepsmoraal van de artsen. Medische beroepsethiek --- Beroepsmoraal van de artsen. Medische beroepsethiek --- Right to life --- Euthanasia --- Ethique médicale --- Droit à la vie --- Euthanasie --- Life and death, Power over. --- Bioethics. --- Philosophical anthropology --- Professional ethics. Deontology
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Mort --- Funérailles --- Violence --- Gladiateurs --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Aspect social --- Rites et cérémonies --- Histoire --- Rome --- Mœurs et coutumes --- Gladiators --- Christian martyrs --- Death --- Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Athletes --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Roman --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- History --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Christianity --- Social life and customs. --- History. --- Funérailles --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Rites et cérémonies --- Social life and customs --- Death - Social aspects - Rome. --- Violence - Rome - History. --- Gladiators - Rome - History. --- Christian martyrs - Rome - History. --- Mort - Aspect social - Rome --- Funérailles - Rites et cérémonies - Rome --- Violence - Rome - Histoire --- Gladiateurs - Rome - Histoire --- Martyrs chrétiens - Rome - Histoire --- Rome - Mœurs et coutumes
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Lost in Egypt's honeycombed hills, distanced by its western desert, or rendered inaccessible by subsequent urban occupation, the monumental decorated tombs of the Graeco-Roman period have received little scholarly attention. This volume serves to redress this deficiency. It explores the narrative pictorial programs of a group of decorated tombs from Ptolemaic and Roman-period Egypt (ca.300 BCE-250 CE). Its aim is to recognize the tombs' commonalities and differences across ethnic divides and to determine the rationale that lies behind these connections and dissonances. This book sets the tomb programs within their social, political, and religious context and analyzes the manner in which the multicultural population of Graeco-Roman Egypt chose to negotiate death and the afterlife.
Narrative art --- Tombs --- Death --- Decoration and ornament --- Cultural pluralism --- Tombeaux --- Mort --- Décoration et ornement --- Art narratif --- Diversité culturelle --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Antiquities. --- Ethnic relations --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquités --- Relations interethniques --- Vie religieuse --- Art, Decorative --- Decorative art --- Decorative design --- Design, Decorative --- Nature in ornament --- Ornament --- Painting, Decorative --- Art --- Decorative arts --- Arts and crafts movement --- Dying --- End of life --- Life --- Terminal care --- Terminally ill --- Thanatology --- Mastabas --- Philosophy --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر --- مَصر --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Antiquities --- Religious life and customs --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Art, Narrative --- Narrative art (Visual arts) --- Art genres --- Decoration and ornament, Primitive --- Tombs - Egypt --- Death - Social aspects - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Decoration and ornament - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Narrative art - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Cultural pluralism - Egypt - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Antiquities --- Egypt - History - Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D. --- Egypt - Ethnic relations - History - To 1500 --- Egypt - Religious life and customs
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