Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality: Religion and Cultural Bias in the Oregon Physician-Assisted Suicide Debates

by Robert P. Jones

In Liberalism's Troubled Search for Equality, Robert P. Jones presents a penetrating examination of physician-assisted suicide that exposes unresolved tensions deep within liberal political theory. Jones asks why egalitarian liberal philosophers--most notably, Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls--support legalized physician-assisted suicide in direct opposition to groups of disadvantaged citizens they theoretically champion. Jones argues that egalitarian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026803267X
• ISBN13: 9780268032678
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"