Автор: DeCesare Michael Название: Death on Demand: Jack Kevorkian and the Right-To-Die Movement ISBN: 1442242132 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442242135 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 8237.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian-"Dr. Death"-and his role as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. The book examines Kevorkian`s activities in the context of the right-to-die movement to understand his crucial role in bringing the controversial practice of assisted suicide into the public conversation.
Автор: Jones David Albert, Gastmans Chris, Mackellar Calum Название: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium ISBN: 1316648354 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316648353 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written for students and researchers in legal, medical and social ethics, the authors examine evidence on euthanasia from Belgium, one of only five countries where it is legal. A valuable contribution to the international debate about assisted dying, this book is an ideal foundation for informed debate on this complex issue.
Автор: Hillyard, Daniel Название: Dying Right ISBN: 0415927986 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415927987 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23734.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Hillyard, Daniel Название: Dying Right ISBN: 0415927994 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415927994 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7042.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
"Ball's arguments are concise, compelling, and backed with considerable case law. This volume is highly recommended for upper-level undergraduates and above in law, philosophy, and the medical humanities interested in the 'right to die' debates. Summing up: Highly recommended." —Choice
Over the past hundred years, average life expectancy in America has nearly doubled, due largely to scientific and medical advances, but also as a consequence of safer working conditions, a heightened awareness of the importance of diet and health, and other factors. Yet while longevity is celebrated as an achievement in modern civilization, the longer people live, the more likely they are to succumb to chronic, terminal illnesses. In 1900, the average life expectancy was 47 years, with a majority of American deaths attributed to influenza, tuberculosis, pneumonia, or other diseases. In 2000, the average life expectancy was nearly 80 years, and for too many people, these long lifespans included cancer, heart failure, Lou Gehrig’s disease, AIDS, or other fatal illnesses, and with them, came debilitating pain and the loss of a once-full and often independent lifestyle. In this compelling and provocative book, noted legal scholar Howard Ball poses the pressing question: is it appropriate, legally and ethically, for a competent individual to have the liberty to decide how and when to die when faced with a terminal illness? At Liberty to Die charts how, the right of a competent, terminally ill person to die on his or her own terms with the help of a doctor has come deeply embroiled in debates about the relationship between religion, civil liberties, politics, and law in American life. Exploring both the legal rulings and the media frenzies that accompanied the Terry Schiavo case and others like it, Howard Ball contends that despite raging battles in all the states where right to die legislation has been proposed, the opposition to the right to die is intractable in its stance. Combining constitutional analysis, legal history, and current events, Ball surveys the constitutional arguments that have driven the right to die debate.
This volume offers new perspectives on questions which are highly relevant in the context of dementia and the arts and the humanities. The issues concern the personal identity of dementia patients, their familial relationships, advance directives and the patients’ autonomy, the cultural representation of the subjective experience of dementia, and the patients’ stigmatization due to the disease. By considering topics from philosophy and medical humanities, from cultural studies as well as from German, English, American and Comparative literature, the volume aims to think beyond the boundaries of specific disciplines in order to bring philosophy, literary and cultural studies into a fruitful conversation about dementia and the challenges it entails for the individual and for society.
Dieser Band erm?glicht alternative Zug?nge zu aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Debatten ?ber Demenz. Ausgehend von zentralen Fragen der Philosophie sowie der Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften diskutieren die Beitr?ge Probleme der personalen Identit?t von Demenzerkrankten, ihren famili?ren Beziehungen, zu Patientenverf?gungen und zur Autonomie von Demenzbetroffenen sowie die kulturelle Repr?sentation der subjektiven Erfahrungen von Demenz und die Stigmatisierung von Patienten infolge ihrer Erkrankung. Durch seinen interdisziplin?ren Ansatz bringt der Band Beitr?ge aus der Philosophie, den Medical Humanities, der Germanistik, Anglistik und Amerikanistik sowie der Komparatistik in einen Dialog ?ber die Herausforderungen, die Demenzerkrankungen an unsere Gesellschaft und das Individuum stellen.
Автор: Kaplan Название: Right to Die Versus Sacredness of Life ISBN: 0415786193 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415786195 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 16843.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Presents several theoretical and empirical articles on the topic of euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and suicide. This book includes some preliminary work on seven cases of physician-assisted suicides in Australia.
Автор: Jones David Albert Название: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide ISBN: 1107198860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107198869 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Written for students and researchers in legal, medical and social ethics, the authors examine evidence on euthanasia from Belgium, one of only five countries where it is legal. A valuable contribution to the international debate about assisted dying, this book is an ideal foundation for informed debate on this complex issue.
Автор: Benhabib Название: Dignity in Adversity - Human Rights in Turbulent Times ISBN: 0745654428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780745654423 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8712.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human rights has grown, their philosophical justification has become ever more controversial.
Building on a theory of discourse ethics and communicative rationality, this book addresses the politics and philosophy of human rights against the background of the broader social transformations that are shaping the modern world. Rejecting the reduction of international human rights to the Trojan horse of a neo-liberal empire's bid for world power, as well as the conservative objections to legal cosmopolitanism as encroachments upon democratic sovereignty, Benhabib develops two key concepts to move beyond these false antitheses. International human rights norms need contextualization in specific polities through processes of what she calls 'democratic iterations.' Furthermore, such norms have a 'jurisgenerative power, ' in that they enable new actors to enter fields of social and political contestation; they promote new vocabularies for public claim-making and anticipate a justice to come.
Ranging over themes such as sovereignty, citizenship, genocide, European anti-semitism, the crisis of the nation-state, and the 'scarf affair' in contemporary Europe and Turkey, this major new book by one of our leading political theorists reflects upon the political transformations of our times and makes a compelling case for a cosmopolitanism without illusions.
Автор: Jimmy Chia-Shin Hsu Название: Human Dignity in Asia: Dialogue between Law and Culture ISBN: 1108835740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108835749 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17424.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Using interdisciplinary methods, this book explores Asian understandings of human dignity and human rights in the context of courts, religious traditions, and socio-political change. Furthering the dialogue between Asian and Western social values, this comparative study offers an alternative to a rigidified social imagination.
Автор: Lopes Giza Название: Dying with Dignity ISBN: 1440830975 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781440830976 Издательство: Bloomsbury Цена: 7425.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad.
Автор: Gilabert, Pablo (associate Professor Of Philosophy, Concordia University) Название: Human dignity and human rights ISBN: 0198827229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198827221 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11722.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book offers a sophisticated and comprehensive defence of the view that human dignity is the moral heart of human rights, thus enabling us to defend human rights as the urgent ethical and political project that puts humanity first.
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