Death talk : the case against euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide / / Margaret Somerville

• Autore: Somerville Margaret
• Pubblicazione: Montréal, Québec : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: Second edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (471 p.)
• Disciplina: 179.7
• Soggetto topico: Euthanasia; Assisted suicide
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Part One Euthanasia and the Search for a New Societal Paradigm -- 1 Euthanasia, Genetics, Reproductive Technologies, and the Search for a New Societal Paradigm -- Part Two Evolution of the Euthanasia Controversy -- 2 Should the Grandparents Die? Allocation of Medical Resources with an Aging Population -- 3 The Song of Death: The Lyrics of Euthanasia -- 4 "Death Talk" in Canada: The Rodriguez Case -- 5 The Definition of Euthanasia: A Paradoxical Partnership -- 6 Legalizing Euthanasia: Why Now? -- 7 Euthanasia by Confusion -- 8 (a) Guidelines for Legalized Euthanasia in Canada: A Proposal -- 8 (b) Guidelines for Legalized Euthanasia in Canada: A Rejection of Nielsen's Proposal -- 8 (c) Guidelines for Legalized Euthanasia in Canada: A Response to Somerville's Rejection -- 8 (d) Guidelines for Legalized Euthanasia in Canada: A Response to Nielsen's Response -- 9 Executing Euthanasia: A Review Essay -- 10 Why Aren't Physicians Interested in the Ethics and Law of Euthanasia? A Conference Report -- Part Three Untreated Pain and Euthanasia -- 11 Pain and Suffering at Interfaces of Medicine and Law -- 12 Ethics, Law, and Palliative Treatment and Care: The Dying Elderly Person -- 13 The Relief of Suffering: Human Rights and Medicine -- 14 Death of Pain: Pain, Suffering, and Ethics -- Part Four Respect for Dying People and Euthanasia -- 15 (a) Death at a New York Hospital -- 15 (b) Searching for the Governing Values, Policies, and Attitudes: Commentary on "Death at a New York Hospital" -- 16 (a) Human Dignity and Disease, Disability, Suffering: A Philosophical Contribution to the Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Debate 16 (b) Unpacking the Concept of Human Dignity in Human(e) Death: Comments on "Human Dignity and Disease, Disability, and Suffering" -- 17 (a) Prothanasia: Personal Fulfilment and Readiness to Die -- 17 (b) Taming the Tiger: Reflections on "Prothanasia: Personal Fulfilment and Readiness to Die" -- 18 Debating A Gentle Death: A Review Essay -- Part Five Euthanasia in the "Public Square" -- 19 Euthanasia in the Media: Journalists" Values, Media Ethics, and "Public Square" Messages -- 20 Euthanasia and the Death Penalty -- Part Six Ethical and Legal "Tools" in the Euthanasia Debate -- 21 Labels versus Contents: Variance between Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Law in Concepts Governing Decision-Making -- 22 Human Rights and Human Ethics: Health and Health Care -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Permissions and Places of Publication -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Death Talk asks why, when our society has rejected euthanasia for over two thousand years, are we now considering legalizing it? Has euthanasia been promoted by deliberately confusing it with other ethically acceptable acts? What is the relation between pain relief treatments that could shorten life and euthanasia? How do journalistic values and media ethics affect the public's perception of euthanasia? What impact would the legalization of euthanasia have on concepts of human rights, human responsibilities, and human ethics? Can we imagine teaching young physicians how to put their patients to death? 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. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through "death talk." Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the "death talk" articulated in the euthanasia debate with "life talk," Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.
• Titolo autorizzato: Death talk
• ISBN: 0-7735-8916-3; 0-7735-8915-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827179303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II