Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide

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The moral issues involved in doctors assisting patients to die with dignity are of absolutely central concern to the medical profession, ethicists, and the public at large. The debate is fuelled by cases that extend far beyond passive euthanasia to the active consideration of killing by physicians. The need for a sophisticated but lucid exposition of the two sides of the argument is now urgent. This book supplies that need. Two prominent philosophers, Gerald Dworkin and R. G. Frey present the case for legalization of physician-assisted suicide. One of the best-known ethicists in the US, Sissela Bok, argues the case against.

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Traces the historical development of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide and then explores the arguments on both sides of the issue, ending with a chapter detailing the author's own opinion against. Manning trained as an M.D. before entering the seminary.