Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate (Reflective Bioethics) - Hardcover

Battin, Margaret P.; Rhodes, Rosamond; Silvers, Anita

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415920027 ISBN 13: 9780415920025

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret P. Battin is Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. She is the author of numerous books, including, The Least Worst Death (1994). Rosamond Rhodes is Director of Bioethics Education and Associate Professor of Medical Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, CUNY. Anita Silvers is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.

Review:

..."this book offers one of the most comprehensive tools to date for understanding the physician-assisted suicide debate.."
-Janet Heald Forliani, "Religious Studies Review
"This excellent collection succeeds in expanding the debate about legalizing physician-assisted suicide well beyond its current narrow framework."
-"New England Journal of Medicine
"From protecting the weak to the question of saving health-care money through PAS, the book covers many often contentious subjects."
-"Publishers Weekly
"Physician Assisted Suicide is by far the most comprehensive collection of materials yet....Whether you know little about this issue, or thought that you knew everything there is to know on it, you are bound to learn more from reading this volume."
-Peter Singer, author of "Rethinking Life and Death
"In a field where a debate can easily degenerate into sound-bites, it is refreshing to find a collectionof essays that examines the difficult issues in a thoughtful and balanced fashion. Everyone concerned with the personal, psychological, medical, social, religious, and legal dimensions of physician-assisted suicide needs this volume."
-Alexander M. Capron, Professor of Law and Medicine, University of Southern California Law School

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0415920027
• ISBN 13: 9780415920025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 463