This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, April 03, 2000)
 | | Last Rights?:
Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia Debated
by Michael M. Uhlmann |
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
677 pages, January 1998
Hardcover, 29.75
ISBN: 0802841996
A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase of this book from Amazon.com will benefit the
Ashbrook Center.
This book is a must read for those interested in the controversy over
assisted suicide and euthanasia. This is not a new problem. The major
arguments have been wrestled with in both pagan antiquity and throughout
the history of the church. This volume is a rich and comprehensive
anthology of primary sources for anyone interested in understanding the
arguments on both sides. The book examines the moral, theological,
medical, and legal perspectives in-depth, and each section of essays is
accompanied by a helpful intoduction guiding readers through the
debates.
Table of Contents
- I. CLASSICAL, CHRISTIAN, AND EARLY MODERN THOUGHT
- 1. Western Thought on Suicide: From Plato to Kant
- II. CONTEMPORARY MORAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
- 2. The History of Suicide
- 3. Do We Have a Right to Die?
- 4. The Right to Die--Again
- 5. Ethical Issues in Physician-Assisted Suicide
- 6. Always to Care, Never to Kill: A Declaration on Euthanasia
- 7. Jewish Views on Euthanasia
- 8. Rethinking Life and Death: A New Ethical Approach
- 9. Death With Dignity and the Sanctity of Life
- 10. The Gospel of Life
- 11. Euthanasia and Christian Vision
- III. MEDICAL PERSPECTIVES
- 12. Rethinking the Hippocratic Oath
- 13. A Fail-safe Model for Justifiable Medically Assisted Suicide
- 14. Why Doctors Must Not Kill
- 15. The Case for Rational Suicide
- 16. It's Over
- 17. Death and Dignity: A. The Case of Diane B. Criteria for Physician-Assisted Suicide C. The Case of Diane Revisited
- 18. Active Voluntary Euthanasia: Opening Pandora's Box
- 19. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: The Dutch Experience
- 20. Aiding the Death of Young Children: Ethical Issues
- 21. A Statement on Physician-Assisted Suicide Excerpt from Code of Medical Ethics
American Medical Association
- IV. LEGAL PERSPECTIVES
- 22. Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Legal Consensus
- 23. Are Laws Against Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional?
- 24. The Constitution and Hastening Inevitable Death
- 25. Three Court Decisions: A. Compassion in Dying v. Washington (1995) Judge John Noonan B. Compassion in Dying v. Washington (1996) Judge Stephen Reinhardt C. Quill v. Vacco (1996) Judge John Miner Judge Guido Calabresi
- 26. Assisted Suicide in the United States: The 'Compassion' and 'Quill' Decisions
- 27. A Model State Act to Authorize and Regulate Physician-Assisted Suicide
- 28. The Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: Creating a Potemkin Village
- 29. The Supreme Court Decides: Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Vacco v. Quill (1997)
- Notes
- Index of Names
- Index of Cases
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