Killing and Letting Die
Killing and Letting Die Books
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This collection contains twenty-one plotting-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and “letting die.” Since broadcast awareness of this come forth has increased this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which result in the treatment of the theme up-to-date. The urgency of this come forth can be gauged in recent developments such as the legalization of physician-helped suicide in the Netherlands, “how-to” manuals topping the epic charts in the United States, and the many headlines devoted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has helped dozens of patients to die. The essays address the range of questions caught up in this come forth pertaining especially to the fields of medical ethics, broadcast policymaking, and social philosophy. The discussions consider the decisions facing medical and broadcast policymakers, how those decisions will affect the elderly and terminally ill, and the medical and legal ramifications for patients in a everlastingly vegetative state, as well as issues of mother/infant rights.
The book is divided into two sections. The first, “Euthanasia and the Termination of Life-Prolonging Treatment” includes an examination of the 1976 Karen Quinlan Supreme Court choice and selections from the 1990 Supreme Court choice in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Featured are articles by law professor George Fletcher and philosophers Michael Tooley, James Rachels, and Bonnie Steinbock, with new articles by Rachels, and Thomas Sullivan. The second section, “Philosophical Considerations,” probes more deeply into the theoretical issues raised by the killing/letting die controversy, illustrating exceptionally well the dispute between two rival theories of ethics, consequentialism and deontology. It also includes a corpus of the standard plotting on the debate by Jonathan Bennet, Daniel Dinello, Jeffrie Murphy, John Harris, Philipa Foot, Richard Trammell, and N. Ann Davis, and adds articles new to this edition by Bennett, Foot, Warren Quinn, Jeff McMahan, and Judith Lichtenberg.
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