C. G. Prado

Choosing to Die

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one's life in order to escape devastating terminal illness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9780521874847
• ISBN-10: 052187484X
• Artikelnr.: 23412548

Autorenporträt

C. G. Prado is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University in Canada. He has published many books, most recently Searle and Foucault on Truth and A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (ed.).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Setting the stage
2. Criteria for rational suicide
3. Clarifying and revising the criteria
4. Application issues
5. What standards?
6. Relativism and cross-cultural assessment
7. The role of religion
8. Assessment latitude
9. The realities of cross-cultural assessment.

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1. Setting the stage; 2. Criteria for rational suicide; 3. Clarifying and revising the criteria; 4. Application issues; 5. What standards?; 6. Relativism and cross-cultural assessment; 7. The role of religion; 8. Assessment latitude; 9. The realities of cross-cultural assessment.

Rezensionen

"This careful analysis of difficult decision making in clinical contexts of terminal illness will be valuable for all concerned about making good choices amid the complexity of the world...Recommended."
-J.A. Kegley, California State University, Choice