Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

This book explores the moral issues involved in euthanasia.

Gerald Dworkin (Author), R. G. Frey (Author), Sissela Bok (Author)

9780521587891, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 1998

152 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.24 kg

"This book did a good job of educating the reader on both sides of the debate on PAS and AVE. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in learning more about these issues." Ethics and Medicine

The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians. The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent. This book supplies that need. Two prominent philosophers, Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey present the case for legalization of physician-assisted suicide. One of the best-known ethicists in the US, Sissela Bok, argues the case against.

Part I Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey: Introduction
1. The nature of medicine
2. Distinctions in death
3. The fear of a slippery slope
4. Public policy and physician-assisted suicide
Part II Sissela Bok: 5. Choosing death and taking life
6. Suicide
7. Euthanasia
8. Physician-assisted suicide.

Subject Areas: Ethics & moral philosophy [HPQ]