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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37666371 Title: Suicide : right or wrong? Author: John Donnelly Publisher: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, ©1998. ISBN/ISSN: 1573921866 9781573921862 OCLC:37666371

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Suicide : right or wrong?

Author:	John Donnelly
Publisher:	Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, ©1998.
Series:	Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
Summary:	Contains twenty-six essays in which various authors explore questions regarding the issue of suicide.
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Suicide. Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, c1998 (OCoLC)645881141
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	John Donnelly Find more information about:
ISBN:	1573921866 9781573921862
OCLC Number:	37666371
Description:	335 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Some historical background: The stoic view / Seneca -- The Catholic view / St. Thomas Aquinas -- Reason and superstition / David Hume -- Duties towards the body in regard to life / Immanuel Kant -- Attitudes toward suicide / Joseph Fletcher -- Medicide : the goodness of planned death / Jack Kevorkian -- Love and death / Celeste Fremon -- Selling death and dignity / Herbert Hendin -- Report of the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the AMA. When do we call it suicide?: Suicide, self-sacrifice, and coercion / William E. Tolhurst -- The rhetoric of suicide / Suzanne Stern-Gillet -- Suicide and self-inflicted death / R.G. Frey -- Suicide and self-starvation / Terence M. O'Keeffe -- Mastering the concept of suicide / Glenn C. Graber -- Suicide : its nature and moral evaluation / Joseph Kupfer. Is suicide moral? Is is rational?: Preventing suicide / Edwin S. Shneidman -- The ethics of suicide / Thomas S. Szasz -- The ethics of suicide prevention / Victor Cosculluela -- Theistic and nontheistic arguments / Milton A. Gonsalves -- Voluntary death, property rights, and the gift of life / David M. Holley -- The morality and rationality of suicide / Richard B. Brandt -- On choosing death / Philip E. Devine -- The art of suicide / Joyce Carol Oates -- The morality of physician-assisted suicide / Robert F. Weir -- Is there a right to die? / Leon R. Kass -- Suicide and rights / Margaret Pabst Battin. The Supreme Court on physician-assisted suicide.
Series Title:	Contemporary issues (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Responsibility:	edited by John Donnelly.

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Is suicide ever rationally or morally justified? This collection of essays, exploring a host of suicide related matters, clarifies the battle-lines of public debate surrounding this intense and Read more...

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