Understanding assisted suicide : nine issues to consider / John B. Mitchell.

  • Mitchell, John B. (John Barry), 1944-
Date:
[2007], ©2007
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Publication/Creation

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2007], ©2007.

Physical description

x, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-210) and index.

Contents

Cultural arguments that assisted suicide is always wrong -- Religious arguments for maintaining that suicide is morally "wrong" -- Utilitarian arguments against suicide -- The slippery slope phenomenon -- My path turns: looking at autonomy and moral claims to the right to assisted suicide -- Act utilitarianism as a moral basis for justifying assisted suicide -- The moral claim justifying physician-assisted suicide with the combination of autonomy and mercy -- Law and assisted suicide -- The question of whether legislatures should or should not legalize physician-assisted suicide.

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ISBN

  • 9780472099962
  • 0472099965
  • 9780472069965
  • 0472069969