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To Die or Not to Die?: Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death

To Die or Not to Die?: Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death


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Dramatic advances in medical technology make it possible to keep an individual alive well after life would otherwise be untenable. These medical advances raise complex and disturbing questions about the appropriateness of allowing or even helping a person to die. This provocative new book provides guidelines for dealing with the sensitive legal and ethical issues surrounding an individual's right to die. Designed to give a global perspective on these contemporary issues, To Die or Not to Die? integrates the ideas and experiences of ten authorities from different disciplines, cultures, and legal systems, recognizing that no single discipline offers an insight that is broad enough to solve the problems caused by rapidly changing medical technology. The book discusses the issues in a comprehensive manner integrating the attitudes of various cultures, and investigates the approaches and solutions of several different legal systems. Challenging many commonly held views on the issues surrounding an individual's right to die, this book builds a new foundation for thinking or rethinking these controversial questions. It allows the reader to consider new and diverse perspectives side by side for the first time. Valuable appendices supply references, statutes, judicial decisions, and important forms for more detailed study. To Die or Not to Die? will prove stimulating reading for professionals in medicine, nursing, theology, law, public health and the disciplines of philosophy, ethics, psychology, and sociology.

Table of Contents:
Preface Cross-Disciplinary Views The Right to Die: Perspectives of the Patient, the Family, and the Health Care Provider The Right to Die: Perspectives from the Catholic and Jewish Traditions Ethical Perepectives on the Right to Die: A Case Study Cross-Cultural Views On the Question of the Right to Die: An African View An Islamic Perspective on Terminating Life-Sustaining Measures Japanese Perspectives on Euthanasia Cross-Legal Views Euthanasia: An English Perspective Indian Legal Concepts of the Right to Die Active Euthanasia in the Netherlands Last Rights: The View from a U.S. Courthouse Appendices Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
ARTHUR S. BERGER is Director of the International Institute for the Study of Death and President of the Survival Research Foundation. He was the recipient of two grants for research in experimental thanatology, has written more than 30 papers and four books on thanatology and parapsychology, and has edited and contributed to other books. JOYCE BERGER is Administrator of the International Institute for the Study of Death. She is co-author of the Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research and co-editor of Perspectives on Death and Dying.

Review :
?A global perspective on advances in medical technology that allow a life to linger which until recently would clearly have been lost. Integrates the ideas and experiences of ten representatives from different disciplines, cultures, and legal systems--acknowledging that no single discipline is broad enough to solve the problems caused by rapidly changing medical technology.?-Reference & Research Book News "A global perspective on advances in medical technology that allow a life to linger which until recently would clearly have been lost. Integrates the ideas and experiences of ten representatives from different disciplines, cultures, and legal systems--acknowledging that no single discipline is broad enough to solve the problems caused by rapidly changing medical technology."-Reference & Research Book News


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  • ISBN-13: 9780275935856
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 208
  • Weight: 510 gr
  • ISBN-10: 027593585X
  • Publisher Date: 30 Nov 1990
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death
  • Width: 156 mm


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