San Antonio College Library

"This is an updated and revised edition after fifteen years of one of the classic critiques of the modern bioethics movement. The new edition will show how the threats to the equality of human life and the potential for medical discrimination have accelerated since the publication of the first edition. Included in the new version: The Terri Schiavo Case, the spread of euthanasia, potential health care rationing posed by Obamacare, the Brittany Maynard...

This work is a sequel to the author's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands to furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. This new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including...

This volume on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying goes beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation. Essays reconsider the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the roles proposed for medical professionals and clinical ethics consultations in connection with assisted dying; relates the debate on assisted dying to questions about organ donation...

"Islamic Ethics of Life" considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time -- abortion, war, and euthanasia -- from the Muslim perspective. Distinguished scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce a volume that both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the west. This collective effort sets forth the relationship between Islamic...

"This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery, and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients, many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses or intellectual disabilities. The book gives the facts as well as theoretical perspectives as a lens through which these crimes can be viewed. It also provides a way to teach this history to nursing...