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A la vie, à la mort : maïtrise de la douleur et droit à la mort
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ISBN: 2911606140 Year: 1997 Publisher: Paris Noésis

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Disposer de la vie, disposer de la mort : [actes des entretiens d'Auxerre, 2005]
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ISBN: 2752602731 9782752602732 Year: 2006 Publisher: La Tour d'Aigues: Éditions de l'Aube,

Life and death in health care ethics : a short introduction
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ISBN: 0415215749 9780415215749 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; New-York : Routledge,

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In a world of rapid technological advances, the moral issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare remain obscure. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics provides a concise, thoughtful and extremely accessible guide to these moral issues. Helen Watt examines, using real-life cases, the range of choices taken by healthcare professionals, patients and clients which lead to the shortening of life. The topics looked at include: euthanasia and withdrawal of treatment - the persistent vegetative state - abortion - IVF and cloning - life-saving treatment of pregnant women. Clearly written and insightful, Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics presupposes no prior knowledge of philosophy. It will be of interest to anyone confronting healthcare ethics for the first time, or seeking to develop his or her understanding of some core topics in the field.


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Human life and medical practice
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ISBN: 0852245602 Year: 1988 Publisher: Edinburgh Edinburgh university press

Life and death in health care ethics
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ISBN: 1282320033 0203135970 9786612320033 113460792X 9780203135976 9780415215732 0415215730 9780415215749 0415215749 9781134607921 0415215730 0415215749 9781134607877 9781134607914 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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In a world of rapid technological advances, the moral issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare remain obscure. Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics provides a concise, thoughtful and extremely accessible guide to these moral issues.Helen Watt examines, using real-life cases, the range of choices taken by healthcare professionals, patients and clients which lead to the shortening of life. The topics looked at include:* euthanasia and withdrawal of treatment* the persistent vegetative state* abortion* IVF and cloning* life-saving treatment of pregnant


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Life Sentences
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ISBN: 1442688491 9781442688490 9780802097552 0802097553 1442692383 9781442692381 Year: 2008 Publisher: Toronto

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Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared. In Life Sentences, Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention. She examines the process that has caused death to be understood in five quasi-biblical commandments: "thou shalt not die violently; thou shalt not die prematurely; thou shalt not kill thyself; and thou shalt not die an undignified death, so that thou shalt die an orderly death." Beginning with John Graunt's Natural and Political Observations Made upon the Bills of Mortality (1662) - considered the first book of statistics - and philosopher Thomas Hobbes's declaration that society must minimize the "greatest evil" of unsanctioned violent deaths, Bayatrizi traces the pivotal moments that have changed our understanding of death. While illuminating the history of our increasingly rationalized understanding of death, she also examines some of our most contradictory reactions to controversial topics such as suicide, euthanasia, suicide bombing, "collateral damage," and how our moral values have been shaped by an understanding of the proper place of a well-ordered death in modern society. Both historically rigorous and vigorously engaged in contemporary debates, Life Sentences will be of interest to anyone interested in how we deal with death before we die.

Living high and letting die : our illusion of innocence
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ISBN: 0195108590 0195075897 0199868263 0198026811 9786610526253 1280526254 142942253X Year: 1996 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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