C. G. Prado

Coping with Choices to Die

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and beliefs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9780521114769
• ISBN-10: 0521114764
• Artikelnr.: 30882837

Autorenporträt

C. G. Prado is professor emeritus of philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. His most recent publications are Starting with Descartes (2009), Foucault's Legacy (2009), Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism (2008) and Searle and Foucault on Truth (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: emotions, feelings, and thoughts Wesley Boston
1. Laying the groundwork
2. Feelings: their influences and control
3. Culture's elusive role
4. Revising the criterion for rational elective death
5. Two philosophical challenges
6. Survivors' responses
7. Accepting finality
Appendix: belief in an afterlife.

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Preface: emotions, feelings, and thoughts Wesley Boston; 1. Laying the groundwork; 2. Feelings: their influences and control; 3. Culture's elusive role; 4. Revising the criterion for rational elective death; 5. Two philosophical challenges; 6. Survivors' responses; 7. Accepting finality; Appendix: belief in an afterlife.

Rezensionen

'Prado's book is a thorough, thoughtful and comprehensive analysis of euthanasia, its philosophical challenges, and - originally - the close people's situation. In sum, a book that addresses a wide readership in addition to the medical.' P. Schioldborg, Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen