Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism
Author:   C. G. Prado (Queen's University, Ontario)
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Author:   C. G. Prado (Queen's University, Ontario)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9781139167406


ISBN 10:   1139167405
Publication Date:   05 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Table of Contents

1. Setting the stage; 2. Criteria for rational suicide; 3. Clarifying and revising the criteria; 4. Application issues; 5. What standards?; 6. Relativism and cross-cultural assessment; 7. The role of religion; 8. Assessment latitude; 9. The realities of cross-cultural assessment.

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""This careful analysis of difficult decision making in clinical contexts of terminal illness will be valuable for all concerned about making good choices amid the complexity of the world...Recommended."" -J.A. Kegley, California State University, Choice ""...thorough, stimulating, and important ... This is a densely articulated and argued book with an extraordinarily important set of central concerns, and it is well worth reading...."" - Margaret P. Battin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


This careful analysis of difficult decision making in clinical contexts of terminal illness will be valuable for all concerned about making good choices amid the complexity of the world...Recommended. -J.A. Kegley, California State University, Choice ...thorough, stimulating, and important ... This is a densely articulated and argued book with an extraordinarily important set of central concerns, and it is well worth reading... - Margaret P. Battin, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


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C. G. Prado is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University in Canada. He has published many books, most recently Searle and Foucault on Truth and A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy (ed.).

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