Living and Dying Well

AvLewis Petrinovich

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-05-31
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:569 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Issues in Social Justice
Antal sidor:362
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781489902085

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'Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.' Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4) 'Interesting and timely.' Choice, November 1996

Innehållsförteckning

1. Objectives and Background Principles.- 2. Genetic Screening.- 3. The Human Genome Project.- 4. Death and Its Criteria.- 5. Organ Transplants.- 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues.- 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues.- 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards.- 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues.- 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition.- 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform.- 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan.- 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues.- 14. The Great Health-Care Debate.- 15. Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.