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  • When Is It Right to Die?

    A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying

    More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. When is it Right to Die? offers a different path with alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity.Joni Eareckson Tada knows what it means to wrestle with this issue and to wish for a painless solution. For the last 50 years she has been confined to a wheelchair and struggled against her own paralysis. And ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • What Kind of Death

    The Ethics of Determining One’s Own Death

    Series series Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
    Many books have been published about physician-assisted death. This book offers a comprehensive and in-depth examination of that subject, but it also extends the discussion to a broader range of end-of-life decisions including suicide, palliative care and sedation until death.In every jurisdiction that has laws permitting some kind of physician-assisted death, a central point of controversy is ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • To Serve the Living

    Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death

    From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or “homegoing” ceremonies with dignity and pageantry. As entrepreneurs in a largely segregated trade, they were among the few black individuals in any community who were economically independent and not beholden to the local white power structure. Most important, their financial ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Thomas Hobbes Collection

    Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy. Hobbes is best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, which expounded an influential formulation of social contract theory. In addition to political philosophy, Hobbes also contributed to a diverse array of other fields, including history, jurisprudence, geometry, the physics of gases, ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Supreme Court in the Intimate Lives of Americans

    Birth, Sex, Marriage, Childrearing, and Death

    by Howard Ball ...
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2003Personal rights, such as the right to procreate-or not-and the right to die generate endless debate. This book maps out the legal, political, and ethical issues swirling around personal rights. Howard Ball shows how the Supreme Court has grappled with the right to reproduce and to abort, and takes on the issue of auto-euthanasia and assisted suicide, from ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Right to Die

    The courageous Canadians who gave us the right to a dignified death

    "Who owns my life?" Sue Rodriguez was dying of a form of ALS (or Lou Gehrig's disease) when she asked this question of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. She was fighting for the right to a physician-assisted death before she became fully paralyzed. At the time, assisted suicide could result in jail time for the participating physician. In a narrow decision, Rodriguez lost her case. She died in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Right to Die

    A Reference Handbook

    by Howard Ball ...
    Series series Contemporary World Issues
    This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die—often in great pain and suffering.In 1900, the average age at which people died in America was 47 years of age; the primary causes of death were ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Politics of Intimacy

    Rethinking the End-of-Life Controversy

    by Anna Durnova ...
    Series series Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics
    Debates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented. Intimacy comprises the emotional experience of the end of life and how we acknowledge it—or not—through institutions. This ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

    Series Book 55 - New Forum Books
    The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia provides the most thorough overview of the ethical and legal issues raised by assisted suicide and euthanasia--as well as the most comprehensive argument against their legalization--ever published.In clear terms accessible to the general reader, Neil Gorsuch thoroughly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of leading contemporary ethical arguments for ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Foxhunter

    This tragic story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence, negligence, poor practice, and judgement, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering. She is undergoing a surgical procedure that she did not need when she suffers a cardiac arrest with devastating ... Read more

    $7.00 USD

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  • The Foxhunter

    by Andrew Rynne ...
    This terrible story happened in a Dublin Hospital in the early 1970's. Through gross medical incompetence and malpractice, compounded by denial and arrogance, a young woman is put into a chronic vegetative state from which there is no prospect of ever recovering.Those responsible for this disaster added to their disgrace by denying their victim her right to die. Rather, by tube feeding her, they ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Chronic Silence of Political Parties in End of Life Policymaking in the United States

    In recent decades, the level of moral acceptability of choice at the end of life has reached record highs. Legislative responsiveness to public opinion, however, has resulted in far fewer and much slower adoption patterns. For example, if a growing number of Americans support aid in dying legislation, why are so few states adopting them? While extensive research that explores matters of death and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD $34.99 USD

  • The Apology

    by Xenophon ...
    The Apology Xenophon - In this work the Athenian historian Xenophon tries to show that Socrates' proud defense before the Athenian jury was in large part due to his belief that it was the right time for him to die. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Texting, Suicide, and the Law

    The case against punishing Michelle Carter

    by Mark Tunick ...
    In 2014, Conrad Roy committed suicide following encouragement from his long-distance girlfriend, Michelle Carter, in what has become known as the Texting Suicide case. The case has attracted much attention, largely focusing on the First Amendment free speech issue. This book takes the view that the issue is intertwined with several others, some of which have received less attention but help ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Texas Advance Directives: Advance Directive & Medical Power of Attorney

    by Penny Nova ...
    This ebook contains the Advance Directives for the state of Texas, including Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates and Medical Power of Attorney. These legal documents and guideline come courtesy of the Texas Health Resources – a non-profit organization. To modify & save these forms in MS Word format, go to http://www.paperwell.com/contracts/advance-directive. ... Read more

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  • Taking one’s own Life

    Euthanasia and Suicide in Dutch Law with a short excursus to German Law

    The book describes the historical development of the legislation on euthanasia and suicide in The Netherlands. During the last about 70 years. Part 1 summarizes the development until about 2017. Parts 2 and 3 deal with the period from August 2017 until about the end of February 2022. The book ends when neither in the Netherlands nor in Germany legislation on euthanasia was completed. Presently, in ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Global Health Rights

    This book examines the idea of a fundamental entitlement to health and healthcare from a human rights perspective.The volume is based on a particular conceptual reasoning that balances critical thinking and pragmatism in the context of a universal right to health. Thus, the primary focus of the book is the relationship or contrast between rights-based discourse/jurisprudential arguments and real ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Religion, Medicine and the Law

    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    Is the legal protection that is given to the expression of Abrahamic religious belief adequate or appropriate in the context of English medical law? This is the central question that is explored in this book, which develops a framework to support judges in the resolution of contentious cases that involve dissension between religious belief and medical law, developed from Alan Gewirth’s Principle ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Regulating the End of Life

    Death Rights

    Edited by Sue Westwood ...
    Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field.Providing an overview of current regulation on assisted dying and euthanasia, both in the UK and internationally, this book also addresses the associated debates on ethical, moral, and rights issues. It considers whether, just as there is a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Planning For Uncertainty

    Living Wills and Other Advance Directives for You and Your Family

    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    A practical guide to documenting your decisions and preferences in case of incapacitating illness.It won’t happen to me.I’m too busy to worry about a living will.My family will know what to do.No one wants to plan for incapacitating illness or death. But to spare loved ones from needless emotional suffering, or even legal battles, people of all ages need to document and communicate clear decisions ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Patients with Passports

    Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

    Can your employer require you to travel to India for a hip replacement as a condition of insurance coverage? If injury results, can you sue the doctor, hospital or insurer for medical malpractice in the country where you live? Can a country prohibit its citizens from helping a relative travel to Switzerland for assisted suicide? What about travel for abortion? In Patients with Passports, I. Glenn ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • One Last Goodbye

    Sometimes only a mother's love can help end the pain

    Watching her child die is the hardest thing a mother can ever do. But for Kay Gilderdale, saying a final goodbye to her only daughter Lynn was exceptionally painful: she'd played a part in her death.Lynn was just 14 when she was struck down by the crippling disease ME, leaving her paralysed and in constant agony. Over the next 17 years, she became desperate to escape her miserable existence, even ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Occupational Hazards in the Health Professions

    This volume is written especially for health professionals affiliated with hospitals, veterinary clinics, dental offices, dental laboratories, toxicological testing laboratories, and pharmaceutical laboratories as a contribution to attain security in such working environments. Possible hazards in the working environments for the health professionals are discussed, followed by recommendations of ... Read more

    $270.99 USD

  • New York Advance Directives: Living Will & Health Care Proxy form aka Power of Attorney

    by Penny Nova ...
    This ebook contains the Advance Directives for the state of New York, specifically a Living Will template and Health Care proxy form, aka Power of Attorney. These legal documents and guideline come courtesy of the New York State Bar. To modify & save these forms in MS Word format, go to http://www.paperwell.com/contracts/advance-directive. ... Read more

    Free