Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material
Author Prado, C. G.

Title Choosing to die : elective death and multiculturalism / C.G. Prado.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  179.7 P882c 2008    ---  Available
Description xi, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-207) and index.
Contents Setting the stage -- Criteria for rational suicide -- Clarifying and revising the criteria -- Application issues -- What standards? -- Relativism and cross-cultural assessment -- The role of religion -- Assessment latitude -- The realities of cross-cultural assessment.
Subject Right to die.
Patient refusal of treatment.
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Right to Die -- ethics.
Attitude to Death.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Cultural Diversity.
Ethical Relativism.
Euthanasia, Active -- ethics.
ISBN 0521697581 (pbk.)
9780521697583 (pbk.)
9780521874847 (hardback)
052187484X (hardback)
Standard No. NLM 101313233
AU@ 000042078733
NZ1 11680129
NLGGC 309724465

 
    
Available items only