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The euthanasia controversy 1812-1974 : a bibliography with select annotations
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ISBN: 0878750711 Year: 1975 Publisher: Troy Whitston


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The unfinished debate on euthanasia
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ISBN: 0334017262 9780334017264 Year: 1973 Publisher: London SCM


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"Komm süßer Tod" - Europa auf dem Weg zur Euthanasie? : zur theologischen Akzeptanz von assistiertem Suizid und aktiver Sterbehilfe.
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ISBN: 9783170205635 3170205633 Year: 2008 Volume: 32 Publisher: Stuttgart Kohlhammer


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Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
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ISBN: 0773589155 9780773589155 9780773589162 0773589163 9780773543768 0773543767 Year: 2014 Publisher: Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death? There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk, Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through "death talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.

Regulating death : euthanasia and the case of the Netherlands
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ISBN: 0029124409 9780029124406 Year: 1991 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Free Press


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Euthanasie : medische, ethische en juridische aspecten
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ISBN: 9024226317 Year: 1982 Publisher: Kampen Kok

Physician-assisted suicide.
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ISBN: 0253332826 Year: 1997 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

Physician assisted suicide : expanding the debate.
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ISBN: 0415920035 0415920027 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York Routledge

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Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate. The question of physician assisted suicide is not a simple matter. This cross-disciplinary collection of essays, offering views from a range of disciplines, including bioethics, law, medicine, and religion, draws attention to the variety of questions posed.

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