{"product_id":"9781402003653","title":"Philosophy and Medicine: What are the Issues?","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePhilosophy and Medicine: What are the Issues?\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eKopelman, L.M.; de Ville, K.A.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhysician-Assisted Suicide: What are the Issues?\u003c\/em\u003e offers a  detailed discussion of recent supreme court rulings that have had an  impact on the contemporary debate in the United States and elsewhere  over physician-assisted suicide. Two rulings by the U.S. Supreme Court  have altered the contemporary debate on physician-assisted suicide:  Washington v. Glucksberg (1997) and Vacco v. Quill (1997). In these  cases, the Supreme Court ruled that state laws could prohibit assisted  suicide and, therefore, physician-assisted suicide. These rulings mark  the apex of over two decades of unprecedented litigation regarding  end-of-life care and signal the beginning of a new clinical, ethical,  and legal debate over the extent of an individual's rights to control  the timing, manner, and means of his\/her death. \u003cbr\u003e  The debate over suicide and assisting suicide is ancient and  contentious and intertwined with questions about the permissibility of  voluntary active euthanasia or mercy killing. Responses to these  issues can be divided into those who defend physician-assisted suicide  and many of these other activities and those who object. But those who  object may do so on principled grounds in that they regard these  activities as wrong in all cases, or non-principled, in that they  believe there are more prudent, less disruptive or more efficient  policies. The authors in this book sort out these responses and look  at the assumptions underlying them. Several of these authors give  startling new interpretations that a culture gap, deeper and wider  than that in the abortion debate, exists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2001-11-30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781402003653\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-010-9631-7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 252\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44481542357132,"sku":"9781402003653","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781402003653.jpg?v=1779935374","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781402003653","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}