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Death Talk Margaret Somerville

Death Talk par Margaret Somerville

Death Talk Margaret Somerville


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A reasoned, passionate, and wide-ranging enquiry into the euthanasia debate and its consequences for individuals and society.

Death Talk Résumé

Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Second Edition Margaret Somerville

There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine. Death has always been a central focus of the discussion that we engage in as individuals and as a society in searching for meaning in life. Moreover, we accommodate the inevitable reality of death into the living of our lives by discussing it, that is, through death talk. Until the last twenty years this discussion occurred largely as part of the practice of organized religion. Today, in industrialized western societies, the euthanasia debate provides a context for such discussion and is part of the search for a new societal-cultural paradigm. Seeking to balance the death talk articulated in the euthanasia debate with life talk, Somerville identifies the very serious harms for individuals and society that would result from accepting euthanasia. A sense of the unfolding euthanasia debate is captured through the inclusion of Somerville's responses to or commentaries on several other authors' contributions.

Death Talk Avis

This book would be a most welcome addition to the library of any person interested in the debate on euthanasia. Somerville succeeds in discussing openly and honestly both sides of the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide debate. Saskatchewan Law Review

À propos de Margaret Somerville

Margaret Somerville is Gale Professor of Law, professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law at McGill University. She is also the author of The Ethical Canary: Science, Society, and the Human Spirit.

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GOR011063561
9780773543768
0773543767
Death Talk: The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide, Second Edition Margaret Somerville
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
McGill-Queen's University Press
20140401
470
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