عنوان

A merciful end :

شابک

0195154436

شابک

0195184130

شابک

0198035152

شابک

1280502193

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1602568448

شابک

6610502196

شابک

9780195154436

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9780195184136

شابک

9780198035152

شابک

9781280502194

شابک

9781602568440

شابک

9786610502196

شماره

b799263

عنوان اصلي

A merciful end :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the Euthanasia movement in modern America /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ian Dowbiggin.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Oxford University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2003.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xix, 250 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-239) and index.

متن يادداشت

Origins -- Breakthrough, 1920-1940 -- Stalemate, 1940-1960 -- Riding a great wave, 1960-1975 -- Not that simple, 1975-1990 -- Conclusion: the 1990s and beyond.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

How did today's debate over euthanasia (taken from the Greek word for 'good death') become so divisive in American society? In "A Merciful End", Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide. Having had access to confidential records in the United States, England and Canada, and having interviewed leading figures in the American euthanasia movement, he reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century, long before Jack Kevorkian began helping patients to die. Over the course of the twentieth century, a group of public-spirited men and women tried to break down ancient Judeo-Christian prohibitions against mercy killing, overturn state laws criminalizing assisted suicide, and convince the US Supreme Court that there is a right to die in the Constitution. In their eagerness to succeed, these euthanasia advocates have often sanctioned public policies that blur the fine line between choice and duty, freedom and coercion, the rights of the individual and the needs of society.; By the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had won some small victories, and the debate over whose lives were worth living still raged, but Dowbiggin argues that more and more Americans seemed to prefer better end-of-life care to sweeping changes in laws about euthanasia. America's euthanasia movement entered the twenty-first century ready and willing to fight new wars but facing an uphill battle against sentiments such as these. Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia, "A Merciful End" is an illuminating and cautionary account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. It provides a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

833CAA79-5613-485E-A6B8-DB0ADE531BD8

عنوان

Merciful end.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0195154436

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia-- United States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary-- ethics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary-- history.

موضوع مستند نشده

Right to Die-- ethics.

موضوع مستند نشده

Euthanasia.

موضوع مستند نشده

PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

2

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

MBQ

موضوع مستند نشده

PHI-- 005000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

شماره رده

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dowbiggin, Ian Robert,1952-

تاريخ عمليات

20201207114508.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y