Living and Dying Well

Author:   Lewis Petrinovich
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
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9781489902085


Pages:   362
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

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Author:   Lewis Petrinovich
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.575kg
ISBN:  

9781489902085


ISBN 10:   1489902082
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   31 May 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Objectives and Background Principles.- 2. Genetic Screening.- 3. The Human Genome Project.- 4. Death and Its Criteria.- 5. Organ Transplants.- 6. Suicide and Euthanasia: Moral and Legal Issues.- 7. Euthanasia: Moral and Medical Issues.- 8. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards.- 9. Health-Care Policy: Issues.- 10. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans: Oregon Rationing and Managed Competition.- 11. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform.- 12. A Single-Payer National Health Plan.- 13. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues.- 14. The Great Health-Care Debate.- 15. Epilogue.- References.- Author Index.

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`Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.' Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4) `Interesting and timely.' Choice, November 1996


`Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.' Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4) `Interesting and timely.' Choice, November 1996


'Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.' Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4) 'Interesting and timely.' Choice, November 1996


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