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Euthanasia : the moral issues /

Contributor(s): Baird, Robert M, 1937- | Rosenbaum, Stuart E.
Series: Contemporary issues in philosophy.Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1989Description: 216 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0879755555 (pbk.); 9780879755553:.Subject(s): Euthanasia | Ethics, MedicalDDC classification: 179.7
Contents:
Sentenced to life / Christine Wicker -- It's over, Debbie / Anonymous -- Doctors must not kill / Willard Gaylin ... [et al.] -- Debbie's dying : mercy killing and the good death / Kenneth L. Vaux -- The case of Karen Quinlan / C. Everett Koop -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : an impertinent distinction? / Thomas D. Sullivan -- More impertinent distinctions / James Rachels -- The right to die : the moral dilemmas / C. Everett Koop -- Sanctity of life versus quality of life / Joseph Fletcher -- The wrongfulness of euthanasia / J. Gay-Williams -- Assisted suicide : an ethical perspective / Gerald D. Coleman -- Assisting suicide : an ethical perspective / Ernlé W.D. Young -- Justifiable active euthanasia in the Netherlands / Pieter Admiraal.
Active voluntary euthanasia : a needless Pandora's Box / D. Alan Shewmon -- Ethical issues in aiding the death of young children / H. Tristram Englehardt -- Conclusions of a British Medical Association review of guidelines on euthanasia -- The case for active voluntary euthanasia / Gerald A. Larue -- The physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients : a second look / Sidney H. Wanzer ... [et al.] -- Missouri v. Cruzan.
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Includes excerpts from the Supreme Court's first major decision on euthanasia, Missouri v. Cruzan.

Sentenced to life / Christine Wicker -- It's over, Debbie / Anonymous -- Doctors must not kill / Willard Gaylin ... [et al.] -- Debbie's dying : mercy killing and the good death / Kenneth L. Vaux -- The case of Karen Quinlan / C. Everett Koop -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Active and passive euthanasia : an impertinent distinction? / Thomas D. Sullivan -- More impertinent distinctions / James Rachels -- The right to die : the moral dilemmas / C. Everett Koop -- Sanctity of life versus quality of life / Joseph Fletcher -- The wrongfulness of euthanasia / J. Gay-Williams -- Assisted suicide : an ethical perspective / Gerald D. Coleman -- Assisting suicide : an ethical perspective / Ernlé W.D. Young -- Justifiable active euthanasia in the Netherlands / Pieter Admiraal.

Active voluntary euthanasia : a needless Pandora's Box / D. Alan Shewmon -- Ethical issues in aiding the death of young children / H. Tristram Englehardt -- Conclusions of a British Medical Association review of guidelines on euthanasia -- The case for active voluntary euthanasia / Gerald A. Larue -- The physician's responsibility toward hopelessly ill patients : a second look / Sidney H. Wanzer ... [et al.] -- Missouri v. Cruzan.

Edited by: Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum.

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