Death Talk, First Edition: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

by Margaret Somerville

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There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:077352245X

ISBN13:9780773522459

Release Date:December 2001

Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.68 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Related Subjects

Administration & Policy Clinical Death & Grief Ethics Ethics & Morality Euthanasia Health & Medical Law Humanities Law Legal Theory & Systems

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