When, if ever, is life no longer worth living? When, if ever, is it right to withdraw life-support or hasten death? And who should decide? These questions that confront physicians, bioethicists, social workers, the children of aging parents, and sooner or later almost everyone now receive increasingly urgent attention in American society. Peter Filene's In the Arms of Others is the first book to set this dilemma into broad historical and cultural context.
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When, if ever, is life no longer worth living? When, if ever, is it right to withdraw life-support or hasten death? And who should decide? These questions that confront physicians, bioethicists, social workers, the children of aging parents, and sooner or later almost everyone now receive increasingly urgent attention in American society. Peter Filene's In the Arms of Others is the first book to set this dilemma into broad historical and cultural context.
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As New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Type: Hardback First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket As New. An exploration of the dilemma of right to die issues and how this fits into American history and culture in the United States Clean and unmarked binding of blue half cloth with gilt titles, gold boards; tight& solid, square with sharp corners. Clean, crisp, unmarked pages. Unclipped jacket. 282 pages with Notes and Index. 6 x 9 inches. Ivan R Dee Publishers, Chicago, Illinois, 1998.
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