Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide /
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Euthanasia and the search for a new societal paradigm
- 1. Euthanasia, genetics, reproductive technologies, and the search for a new societal paradigm
- pt. 2. Evolution of the euthanasia controversy
- 2. Should the grandparents die? : allocation of medical resources with an aging population
- 3. The song of death : the lyrics of euthanasia
- 4. "Death talk" in Canada : the Rodriguez case
- 5. The definition of euthanasia : a paradoxical partnership
- 6. Legalizing euthanasia : why now?
- 7. Euthanasia by confusion
- 8 (a) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a proposal / Torsten O. Nielsen
- 8 (b) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a rejection of Nielsen's proposal
- 8 (c) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Somerville's rejection / Torsten O. Nielsen
- 8 (d) Guidelines for legalized euthanasia in Canada : a response to Nielsen's response
- 9. Executing euthanasia : a review essay
- 10. Why aren't physicians interested in the ethics and law of euthanasia? : a conference report
- pt. 3. Untreated pain and euthanasia
- 11. Pain and suffering at interfaces of medicine and law
- 12. Ethics, law, and palliative treatment and care : the dying elderly person
- 13. The relief of suffering : human rights and medicine
- 14. Death of pain : pain, suffering, and ethics.
- pt. 4. Respect for dying people and euthanasia
- 15 (a) Death at a New York hospital / Engelbert L. Schucking
- 15 (b) Searching for the governing values, policies, and attitudes : commentary on "Death at a New York hospital"
- 16 (a) Human dignity and disease, disability, suffering : a philosophical contribution to the euthanasia and assisted suicide debate / Sylvia D. Stolberg
- 16 (b) Unpacking the concept of human dignity in human(e) death : comments on "Human dignity and disease, disability and suffering"
- 17 (a) Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die / Constantine John Falliers
- 17 (b) Taming the tiger : reflections on "Prothanasia : personal fulfilment and readiness to die"
- 18. Debating A gentle death : a review essay
- pt. 5. Euthanasia in the "public square"
- 19. Euthanasia in the media : journalists' values, media ethics, and "public square" messages
- 20. Euthanasia and the death penalty
- pt. 6. Ethical and legal "tools" in the euthanasia debate
- 21. Labels versus contents : variance between philosophy, psychiatry, and law in concepts governing decision-making
- 22. Human rights and human ethics : health and health care.