Contributor
Carse, James P.
Imprint:New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1977.
Descriptionxvii, 472 p. ; 22 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Review of the Supreme Court decisions on abortion / James Carse. - The humanity of the unborn child / Eugene F. Diamond. - A liberal Catholic's view / Joseph F. Donceel. - Abortion: parameters for decision / R. J. Gerber. - A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson. - Abortion and infanticide / Michael Tooley. - Murder of the newborn: a psychiatric review of neonaticide / Philip J. Resnick. - The case for voluntary euthanasia / Eliot Slater. - The principles of euthanasia / Antony Flew. - Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels. - The indignity of "death with dignity" / Paul Ramsey. - Euthanasia: none dare call it murder / Joseph Sanders. - Ethics and euthanasia / Joseph Fletcher. - Dilemmas of "informed consent" in children / Anthony Shaw. - Suicide: international comparisons. - Suicide among physicians / Mathew Ross. - Suicidal behavior among American indians / H. L. P. Resnik, Larry H. Dizmang. - The right to suicide: a psychiatrist's view / Jerome A. Motto. - Suicide as the soul's choice / James Hillman. - Capital punishment and the law. - Individual liberty and the common good / Brendan F. Brown. - Reinstatement of the death penalty / Carol S. Vance. - A statutory definition the standards for determining human death: an appraisal and a proposal / Alexander Morgan Capron, Leon R. Kass. - The uniform anatomical gift act: a model for reform / Alfred M. Sadler, Jr., Blair L. Sadler, E. Blythe Stason. - The aged and the dying process: the inevitable decisions / Richard A. Kalish. - Aspects of old age in age-specific mortality rates / W. R. Bytheway. - On aging, dying, and denying: delivering care to older dying patients / James O. Carpenter, Charles M. Wylie. - Social death and aging / Sharon R. Curtin. - A definition of irreversible coma: report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the Harvard Medical School to examine the definition of brain death / Henry K. Beecher, et al. - Refinements for criteria for the determination of death: an appraisal. - Against the stream: comments on the definition and redefinition of death / Hans Jonas. - The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher. - Institutions as symbols of death / William F. May. - Between the nipple and the everlasting arms / Robert E. Neale. - When, why, and where people die / Monroe Lerner.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [465]-468.
