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Ethical Issues in Suicide Margaret Pabst Battin

Ethical Issues in Suicide By Margaret Pabst Battin

Ethical Issues in Suicide by Margaret Pabst Battin


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This text provides an exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. It probes the underlying ethical, religious and philosophical issues about self-caused death, and shows how they are important in the current debate.

Ethical Issues in Suicide Summary

Ethical Issues in Suicide by Margaret Pabst Battin

Courses: Death & Dying, Medical or Bio-Ethics, Introduction to Ethics.

Using an exceptionally clear and easily readable style, this text provides a broad, systematic, and comprehensive exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. It probes the underlying ethical, religious and philosophical issues about self-caused death, and shows how they are crucial in the current debate.

Table of Contents



Introduction: Suicide-The Current View.

I. TRADITIONAL ARGUMENTS CONCERNING SUICIDE.

1. Religious Views of Suicide.
2. The Social Arguments Concerning Suicide.
3. Suicide and the Value of Life.

II. CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SUICIDE.

4. The Concept of Rational Suicide.
5. Paternalism and Suicide.
6. Suicide and Rights.
7. Physician-Assisted Suicide.
Conclusion: Suicide and Moral Rules.
Index.

Additional information

GOR012260288
9780133046687
0133046680
Ethical Issues in Suicide by Margaret Pabst Battin
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pearson Education (US)
19941128
256
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