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Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics (Paperback)

by Peter Singer (Author)
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  • Paperback: 268 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks (21 Sep 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0192861840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0192861849
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Derek Humphrey, author of Final Exit

`Brilliantly debunks old concepts and introduces honesty to modern medical ethics.'


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5.0 out of 5 stars A challenge to conventional ethics and philosophy., 27 Dec 2001
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Reviewing the major cases that have shaped bioethical thinking on life and death, Peter Singer dares what no other philosoper has: namely, challenge society's conventional beliefs about the meaning of life and death. He poses many ethical questions that are raised because of medicine's ability to maintain brain dead bodies functioning at any costs. From the tale of Trisha Marshall whose 'life' was maintained by a respirator for 100 days until she delivered her baby, to the cases of Nancy Cruzan and Anthony Bland, patients in a persistent vegetative state supported by artificial nutrition and hydration, Singer argues that law and medicine have moved to an ethic where 'quality of life' distinctions trump the traditional 'sanctity of life' positions. Throughout this book, Singer presents provocative and challenging views through ethical and historical analysis of brain death, abortion, euthanasia and organ donation, thus providing a deep and textured discussion of the major medical ethics problems that we face.
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