The least worst death : essays in bioethics on the end of life / Margaret Pabst Battin.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c1994.Description: 305 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0195082656 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- R726 .B33 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: The politics of dying -- The least worst death -- The eclipse of altruism : the moral costs of deciding for others -- Is there a duty to die? Age rationing and the just distribution of health care -- Dying in 559 beds : efficiency, "best buys," and the ethics of standardization in national health care -- Euthanasia : the fundamental issues -- A dozen caveats concerning the discussion of euthanasia in the Netherlands -- Fiction as forecast : euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease? -- Voluntary euthanasia and the risks of abuse -- Suicide : the basic issues -- Manipulated suicide -- Prohibition and invitation : the paradox of religious views about suicide -- Assisted suicide : can we learn from Germany? -- Assisting in suicide : seventeeen questions physicians and mental-health professionals should ask -- Suicide : a fundamental human right?