Killing and Letting Die
Material type: TextPublication details: New York Fordham University Press 1994Edition: 2th edDescription: 431pISBN:- 0823215628
- O66.9 ST349
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O66.9 R259 Counselling Suicidal Client | O66.9 SCH670 Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low Countries | O66.9 SP679 The English Debate on Suicide | O66.9 ST349 Killing and Letting Die | O66.9 T685 Advancing the Culture of Death | O67.4(N36.4) C622 Feeling Good | O67 AH850 A Short Textbook of Psychiatry |
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I : Euthanasia and the termination of life-prolonging treatment In the matter of karen Quinlan............51 Majority opinion in Cruzan .....................79 Prolonging life: Some legal considerations....88 An irrelevant consideration:killing versus letting die.................103 Active and passive Euthanasia.......112 THe international termination of life.....120 Active and passive euthanasia: An Impertinent distinction..........131 More impertinent distinctions and a defense of Active Euthanasia........139 Coming to terms : A response to rachels ............155 Part II. PHilosophical Problems whatever the Consequences.......167 On killing and letting die.........192 Is killing the innocent absolutely immoral........197 THe moral Equivalence of action and Omission......210 Negation and Abstention: two theories of allowing .......230 The survival lottery............257 The problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect........266 \Killing and letting die..........280 Saving life and taking life.............290 THe priority of Avoiding Harm.......298 Actions, intention, and consequences: the Doctrine of doing and allowing ......355 Killing, Letting die, and withdrawing aid.........383
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