The Least Worst Death
Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life
ISBN13: 9780195082654ISBN10: 0195082656
Paperback, 320 pages
Jan 1994,
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Table of Contents
Introduction. The Politics of Dying: Current Ferment and Background Philosophical Issues
I. Withdrawing and Withholding Care
1.
The Least Worst Death
2.
The Eclipse of Altruism: The Moral Price of Deciding for Others
3.
Is There a Duty to Die?: Age-Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care
4.
Dying in 559 Beds: Efficiency, "Best Buys," and the Ethics of Standardization in National Health Care
II. Euthanasia
5.
Euthansia: The Fundamental Issues
6.
A Dozen Caveats Concerning the Discussion of Euthanasia in the Netherlands
7.
Fiction as Forecast: Euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?
8.
Voluntary Euthanasia and the Risk of Abuse
III. Suicide
9.
Suicide: The Basic Issues
10.
Manipulated Suicide
11.
Prohibition and Invitation: The Paradox of Religious Views about Suicide
12.
Assisted Suicide: Can We Learn from Germany
13.
Suicide: A Fundamental Human Right?
