
Ethical Issues in Suicide
Margaret Pabst Battin(Author)
Pearson (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 28. November 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-13-304668-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-304668-7 (9780133046687)
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Content
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.
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.