- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Greenwood Press (30 Nov 1990)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 027593585X
- ISBN-13: 978-0275935856
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.3 cm
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?A global perspective on advances in medical technology that allow a life to linger which until recently would clearly have been lost. Integrates the ideas and experiences of ten representatives from different disciplines, cultures, and legal systems--acknowledging that no single discipline is broad enough to solve the problems caused by rapidly changing medical technology.?-Reference & Research Book News
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Dramatic advances in medical technology make it possible to keep an individual alive well after life would otherwise be untenable. These medical advances raise complex and disturbing questions about the appropriateness of allowing or even helping a person to die. This book provides guidelines for dealing with the sensitive legal and ethical issues surrounding an individual's right to die. Designed to give a global perspective on these contemporary issues integrates the ideas and experiences of ten authorities from different disciplines, cultures, and legal systems, recognizing that no single discipline offers an insight that is broad enough to solve the problems caused by rapidly changing medical technology. The book discusses the issues in a comprehensive manner integrating the attitudes of various cultures, and investigating the approaches and solutions of several different legal systems. The book is aimed at professionals in medicine, nursing, theology, law, public health and the disciplines of philosophy, ethics, psychology and sociology.
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