Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide /
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 insti...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2001.
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| Col·lecció: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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| Accés en línia: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=404023 |
| Sumari: | 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. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (xix, 433 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569317 0773569316 0773522018 077352245X 9780773522015 9780773522459 |