The Contribution of Natural Law Theory to Moral and Legal Debate Concerning Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Voluntary Euthanasia
Author: Craig Paterson
Publisher: Viewforth
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 0493234284
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The Contribution of Natural Law Theory to Moral and Legal Debate Concerning Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
Author: Craig Paterson
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Published: 2010-05-13
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1599423286
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Author: Craig Paterson
Publisher:
Published: 2010-05-22
Total Pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780557475346
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Craig Paterson is a contemporary philosopher with a special interest in bioethics. He was educated at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland; University of Edinburgh, Scotland; University of York, England; Saint Louis University, USA. He has previously held teaching appointments at Saint Louis University, USA and Providence College, USA. He is currently an independent scholar. Paterson is a significant contributor to contemporary discourse on biomedical ethics in the natural law tradition, especially in the areas of assisted suicide, euthanasia and killing and letting die. He adopts a revised non-naturalist approach to natural law ethics.This text is the dissertation that Paterson originally submitted for his PhD in Health Care Ethics at Saint Louis University, Missouri. The text is essential reading for all those who seek to understand why Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia are morally unacceptable practices and should not be legally permitted by the state.
Physician-Assisted Death
Author: James M. Humber
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 1994-02-04
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 1592594484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Author: Craig Paterson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1351575074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As medical technology advances and severely injured or ill people can be kept alive and functioning long beyond what was previously medically possible, the debate surrounding the ethics of end-of-life care and quality-of-life issues has grown more urgent.In this lucid and vigorous new book, Craig Paterson discusses assisted suicide and euthanasia from a fully fledged but non-dogmatic secular natural law perspective. He rehabilitates and revitalises the natural law approach to moral reasoning by developing a pluralistic account of just why we are required by practical rationality to respect and not violate key demands generated by the primary goods of persons, especially human life.Important issues that shape the moral quality of an action are explained and analysed: intention/foresight; action/omission; action/consequences; killing/letting die; innocence/non-innocence; and, person/non-person. Paterson defends the central normative proposition that 'it is always a serious moral wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human person, whether self or another, notwithstanding any further appeal to consequences or motive'.
New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Author: Michael Cholbi
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-08-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3319220500
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultation in connection with assisted dying, relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ-donation and developments in medical technology, and demonstrates the significance of experimental philosophy in assessing questions of assisted dying. This book is ideal for advanced courses in bioethics and health care ethics.
Assisted Death
Author: L. W. Sumner
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011-07-07
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 0199607982
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →L.W. Sumner explores the ethical and legal status of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia, and argues powerfully that these forms of assisted death can claim the same justification as other widely accepted end-of-life practices. He surveys the opposing views and legal precedents, and develops a model regulatory policy for assisted death.
Voluntary Euthanasia and the Common Law
Author: Margaret Otlowski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780198259961
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Regulating the End of Life
Author: Sue Westwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1000439496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field. Providing an overview of current regulation on assisted dying and euthanasia, both in the UK and internationally, this book also addresses the associated debates on ethical, moral, and rights issues. It considers whether, just as there is a right to life, there should also be a right to death, especially in the context of unbearable human suffering. The unintended consequences of prohibitions on assisted dying and euthanasia are explored, and the argument put forward that knowing one can choose when and how one dies can be life-extending, rather than life-limiting. Key critiques from feminist and disability studies are addressed. The overarching theme of the collection is that death is an embodied right which we should be entitled to exercise, with appropriate safeguards, as and when we choose. Making a novel contribution to the debate on assisted dying, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to those with relevant interests in law, socio-legal studies, applied ethics, medical ethics, politics, philosophy, and sociology.
Ethical Issues in Suicide
Author: M. Pabst Battin
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a broad, systematic, and comprehensive exploration of both historical and contemporary argumentation concerning suicide. It probes the underlying ethical, religious and philosophical issues about self-caused death, and shows how they are crucial in the current debate.
