Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die

by Margaret P. Battin

Book Overview

Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195140273
• ISBN13: 9780195140279
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.1"