Introduction: Ending Life: The Way We Do It, The Way We Could Do
It
PART I: Dilemmas about Dying
1: Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
2: Euthanasia: The Way We Do It, the Way They Do It
3: Going Early, Going Late: The Rationality of Decisions about
Physician-Assisted Suicide in AIDS
4: Is a Physician Ever Obligated to Help a Patient Die?
5: Case Consultation: Scott Ames, A Man Giving Up on Himself
6: Robeck
PART II: Historical, Religious, and Cultural Concerns
7: Collecting the Primary Texts: Sources on the Ethics of
Suicide
8: July 4, 1826: Explaining the Same-Day Deaths of John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson (And What Could This Mean for Bioethics?)
9: High Risk Religion: Informed Consent in Faith Healing, Serpent
Handling, and Refusing Medical Treatment
10: Terminal Procedure
11: The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice: What's Wrong with Suicide
Bombing?
PART III: Dilemmas about Dying in a Global Future
12: Genetic Information and Knowing When You Will Die
13: Extra Long Life: Ethical Aspects of Increased Life Span
14: Global Life Expectancies and International Justice: A
Reemergence of the Duty to Die?
15: New Life in the Assisted-Death Debate: Scheduled Drugs versus
NuTech
16: Empirical Research in Bioethics: The Method of "Oppositional
Collaboration"
17: Safe, Legal, Rare? Physician-Assisted Suicide and Cultural
Change in the Future
Margaret Pabst Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. She has authored, edited, or co-edited fourteen books.
"Animated, inventive, and pleasurable reading."--Andrew Peach, The
Review of Metaphysics
"Not only does Battin successfully combine academic pieces with
fiction, but she also shows a remarkable depth of knowledge of the
historical, cultural, social, and at times legal influences which
have shaped this debate. The reader gets the impression that this
book is the result of serious and meticulous scholarly research on
all aspects of these really difficult questions. Battin comes
across as eloquently familiar with scientific developments,
statistical
studies and the realities involved in practicing the various
solutions proposed."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"There is more to be learnt from this book than from almost any of
the countless others that seek to explore the issues that surround
death and dying...Battin's words--both in this story and in the
more 'academic' selections--have a grace and power all too rarely
found in such collections. Battin is an expert guide in this
exploration of the way we die and her insightful, original, and
paradoxical life-affirming collection cannot be commended
highly
enough."--The Lancet
"Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die may provide the foundation
and inspiration for various examinations and applications of
end-of-life issues by psychologists. Those who are not familiar
with the many issues associated with dying and death that have
emerged in the last decade could find the book to be a treasure
trove of ideas and insights."--PsycCRITIQUES
Praise for The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of
Life
"This book, which is engaging, erudite, and often funny, is a
fascinating review of the history and implications of the
debates--both medical and military--about suicide. Religious
leaders, policymakers, health professionals, the sick, and the
worried well will find these essays helpful in the effort to
extract meaning and morals from modern life and its variety of
deaths."--The New England Journal of Medicine
"Battin is not only a good philosopher, she is a practical
philosopher. She adopts a problem-oriented approach to bioethics,
selecting a specific issue and always attempting to provide
circumspect and reasoned solutions."--Journal of Medical Ethics
"She is surely one of the most erudite and articulate scholars
pondering questions of euthanasia, suicide, and the withdrawal of
medical treatment in the Western world."-- Arthur L. Caplan,
Ethics
"She does what analytically trained philosophers do best, namely,
provide illuminating analyses and clarifications of difficult
concepts and advance logically rigorous arguments in support of her
analyses and positions."--Medical Humanities Review
"Margaret Pabst Battin is one of the most intelligent writers on
medical ethics."--Studies in Christian Ethics
"Margaret Battin is an imaginative philosopher. She comes at issues
at different angles and in different ways from most philosophers.
She has a keen eye for points where philosophical argument and the
public conversation have become polarized and unproductively
stalled."--Social Theory and Practice
"There is more to be learnt from this book than from almost any of
the countless others that seek to explore the issues that surround
death and dying...Battin's words--both in this story and in the
more 'academic' selections--have a grace and power all too rarely
found in such collections. Battin is an expert guide in this
exploration of the way we die and her insightful, original, and
paradoxical life-affirming collection cannot be commended
highly
enough."--The Lancet
"Not only does Battin successfully combine academic pieces with
fiction, but she also shows a remarkable depth of knowledge of the
historical, cultural, social, and at times legal influences which
have shaped this debate. The reader gets the impression that this
book is the result of serious and meticulous scholarly research on
all aspects of these really difficult questions. Battin comes
across as eloquently familiar with scientific developments,
statistical
studies and the realities involved in practicing the various
solutions proposed."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die may provide the foundation
and inspiration for various examinations and applications of
end-of-life issues by psychologists. Those who are not familiar
with the many issues associated with dying and death that have
emerged in the last decade could find the book to be a treasure
trove of ideas and insights."--PsycCRITIQUES
Praise for The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of
Life
"Battin is not only a good philosopher, she is a practical
philosopher. She adopts a problem-oriented approach to bioethics,
selecting a specific issue and always attempting to provide
circumspect and reasoned solutions."--Journal of Medical Ethics
"She is surely one of the most erudite and articulate scholars
pondering questions of euthanasia, suicide, and the withdrawal of
medical treatment in the Western world."-- Arthur L. Caplan,
Ethics
"She does what analytically trained philosophers do best, namely,
provide illuminating analyses and clarifications of difficult
concepts and advance logically rigorous arguments in support of her
analyses and positions."--Medical Humanities Review
"Margaret Pabst Battin is one of the most intelligent writers on
medical ethics."--Studies in Christian Ethics
"Margaret Battin is an imaginative philosopher. She comes at issues
at different angles and in different ways from most philosophers.
She has a keen eye for points where philosophical argument and the
public conversation have become polarized and unproductively
stalled."--Social Theory and Practice
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