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Author : Bernice L. Neugarten
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Extending the Human Life Span written by Bernice L. Neugarten and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katie Engelhart
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250201470
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Inevitable written by Katie Engelhart and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A remarkably nuanced, empathetic, and well-crafted work of journalism, [The Inevitable] explores what might be called the right-to-die underground, a world of people who wonder why a medical system that can do so much to try to extend their lives can do so little to help them end those lives in a peaceful and painless way.”—Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker More states and countries are passing right-to-die laws that allow the sick and suffering to end their lives at pre-planned moments, with the help of physicians. But even where these laws exist, they leave many people behind. The Inevitable moves beyond margins of the law to the people who are meticulously planning their final hours—far from medical offices, legislative chambers, hospital ethics committees, and polite conversation. It also shines a light on the people who help them: loved ones and, sometimes, clandestine groups on the Internet that together form the “euthanasia underground.” Katie Engelhart, a veteran journalist, focuses on six people representing different aspects of the right to die debate. Two are doctors: a California physician who runs a boutique assisted death clinic and has written more lethal prescriptions than anyone else in the U.S.; an Australian named Philip Nitschke who lost his medical license for teaching people how to end their lives painlessly and peacefully at “DIY Death” workshops. The other four chapters belong to people who said they wanted to die because they were suffering unbearably—of old age, chronic illness, dementia, and mental anguish—and saw suicide as their only option. Spanning North America, Europe, and Australia, The Inevitable offers a deeply reported and fearless look at a morally tangled subject. It introduces readers to ordinary people who are fighting to find dignity and authenticity in the final hours of their lives.
Author : David C. Thomasma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521555562
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Birth to Death written by David C. Thomasma and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-07-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biology has been advancing with explosive pace over the last few years and in so doing has raised a host of ethical issues. This book, aimed at the general reader, reviews the major advances of recent years in biology and medicine and explores their ethical implications. From birth to death the reader is taken on a tour of human biology - covering genetics, reproduction, development, transplantation, aging, dying and also the use of animals in research and the impact of human populations on this planet. In each chapter there is a sketch of a field's most recent scientific advances, combined with discussions of the ethical and moral principles and implications for social frameworks and public policy raised by those advances. Anybody interested or concerned about the ethical dilemmas caused by advances in science and medicine should read this book.
Author : Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557530240
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book To the Other written by Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)
Author : H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. MD, PhD
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589012349
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Allocating Scarce Medical Resources written by H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. MD, PhD and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman Catholic moral theology is the point of departure for this multifaceted exploration of the challenge of allocating scarce medical resources. The volume begins its exploration of discerning moral limits to modern high-technology medicine with a consensus statement born of the conversations among its contributors. The seventeen essays use the example of critical care, because it offers one of the few areas in medicine where there are good clinical predictive measures regarding the likelihood of survival. As a result, the health care industry can with increasing accuracy predict the probability of saving lives—and at what cost. Because critical care involves hard choices in the face of finitude, it invites profound questions about the meaning of life, the nature of a good death, and distributive justice. For those who identify the prize of human life as immortality, the question arises as to how much effort should be invested in marginally postponing death. In a secular culture that presumes that individuals live only once, and briefly, there is an often-unacknowledged moral imperative to employ any means necessary to postpone death. The conflict between the free choice of individuals and various aspirations to equality compounds the challenge of controlling medical costs while also offering high-tech care to those who want its possible benefits. It forces society to confront anew notions of ordinary versus extraordinary, and proportionate versus disproportionate, treatment in a highly technologically structured social context. This cluster of discussions is enriched by five essays from Jewish, Orthodox Christian, and Protestant perspectives. Written by premier scholars from the United States and abroad, these essays will be valuable reading for students and scholars of bioethics and Christian moral theology.
Author : Stephen Levine
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307829499
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Who Dies? written by Stephen Levine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book that explains how to open to the immensity of living with death—and how participating fully in life is the perfect preparation for whatever may come next. In Who Dies?, the Levines provide calm compassion rather than the frightening melodrama of death.
Author : Gary Smith
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468310682
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Standard Deviations written by Gary Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How statistical data is used, misused, and abused every day to fool us: “A very entertaining book about a very serious problem.” —Robert J. Shiller, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Irrational Exuberance Did you know that baseball players whose names begin with “D” are more likely to die young? That Asian Americans are most susceptible to heart attacks on the fourth day of the month? That drinking a full pot of coffee every morning adds years to your life, but one cup a day increases your pancreatic cancer risk? These “facts” have been argued with a straight face by credentialed researchers and backed up with reams of data and convincing statistics. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Ronald Coase cynically observed, “If you torture data long enough, it will confess.” Lying with statistics is a time-honored con. In Standard Deviations, economics professor Gary Smith walks us through the various tricks and traps that people use to back up their own crackpot theories. Sometimes, the unscrupulous deliberately try to mislead us. Other times, the well-intentioned are blissfully unaware of the mischief they are committing. Today, data is so plentiful that researchers spend precious little time distinguishing between good, meaningful indicators and total rubbish. Not only do others use data to fool us, we fool ourselves. Drawing on breakthrough research in behavioral economics and using clear examples, Standard Deviations demystifies the science behind statistics and makes it easy to spot the fraud all around us. “An entertaining primer . . . packed with figures, tables, graphs and ludicrous examples from people who know better (academics, scientists) and those who don’t (political candidates, advertisers).” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Author : Kathleen Stassen Berger
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429232056
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (292 download)
Download or read book The Developing Person Through the Life Span written by Kathleen Stassen Berger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The seventh edition comes with significant revision of cognitive development throughout childhood, revised and updated chapters on adolescence, and more attention to emerging and early adulthood. It is a thorough revision with new research on everything from genetics to the timing of puberty, including brain development, life span disorders and cultural diversity. It also includes new learning features promoting critical thinking, revision and application." - product description.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Quigley
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476621705
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Death Dictionary written by Christine Quigley and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From police jargon to medical terminology, from the coarse language of death row to literary euphemisms, over 5,550 words and terms associated directly with death and dying are defined in this unique dictionary. The entries have been collected from 65 cultures, nine religions and 20 fields of study, including archeology, cryonics, theology, theater and the military. Definitions are identified (e.g., archaic, obsolete, slang) and, when appropriate, the occupation it is most closely connected to and variants of the expression are provided. The appended thesaurus gives commonly used words and the terms that are synonymous with them.
Author : Zohreh Bayatrizi
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802097553
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Life Sentences written by Zohreh Bayatrizi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zohreh Bayatrizi examines the many concerted attempts from the last 350 years to strip death of its mystery, and to order, manage, and transform it from an individualized and fatalistic event to a social phenomenon that allows intervention.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Littell's Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Finn Stepputat
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847799108
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Governing the dead written by Finn Stepputat and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, Governing the dead explores how, by whom and with what effects dead bodies are governed in conflict and non-conflict contexts across the world, including an analysis of the struggles over 'proper burials'; the repatriation of dead migrants; abandoned cemeteries; exhumations; 'feminicide'; the protection of dead drug-lords; and the disappeared dead. Mapping theoretical and empirical terrains, this volume suggests that the management of dead bodies is related to the constitution and membership of states and non-state entities that claim autonomy and impunity. This volume is a significant contribution to studies of death, power and politics. It will be useful at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in anthropology, sociology, law, criminology, political science, international relations, genocide studies, history, cultural studies and philosophy. The research program leading to this publication has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013) / ERC Grant Agreement n° 283-617.
Author : Elisabetta Barbi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540785205
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)
Download or read book How Long Do We Live? written by Elisabetta Barbi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-03-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. Leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures.
Author : William F. Bynum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415164191
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine written by William F. Bynum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1993 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an account of the development of medical science in its various branches, and includes discussions of the medical profession and its institutions, and the impact of medicine upon populations, economic development, culture, religions, and thought.
Author : W. F. Bynum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136110364
Total Pages : 1833 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine written by W. F. Bynum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 1833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive work of reference which covers all aspects of medical history and reflects the complementary approaches to the discipline. 72 essays are written by internationally respected scholars from many different areas of expertise.
Author : Iain Brassington
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780930933
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Bioscience and the Good Life written by Iain Brassington and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of biotechnology has provided us with radical revisions and reappraisals of the nature and possibilities of our biological existence. Yet beyond its immediate utility, does a life that is healthier, longer, or freer from disease make us 'better' or more moral people? Bioscience and the Good Life explores the complex relationship between modern biosciences and human flourishing, their sympathies and schisms, and the instances of their reconciliation. Here cognitive enhancement, longevity, and the spectacle of excellence in sports, are examined within the context of what constitutes a life well lived. Framing biotechnological innovation in the discourse of duty and ethics, Brassington advances an insightful and involved response to the existing debates between bioscientific optimists and pessimists, one which mediates their differences, and expands the traditional scope of their arguments.
