内容説明
The two volumes of Death, Dying, and the Ending of Life present the core of recent philosophical work on end-of-life issues. Volume I examines issues in death and consent: the nature of death, brain death and the uses of the dead and decision-making at the end of life, including the use of advance directives and decision-making about the continuation, discontinuation, or futility of treatment for competent and incompetent patients and children. Volume II, on justice and hastening death, examines whether there is a difference between killing and letting die, issues about physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and questions about distributive justice and decisions about life and death.
目次
- Contents: Volume I: Series preface
- Introduction: death and consent
- Part I Death: The Nature of Death: On defining a 'natural death', Daniel Callahan
- Why is death bad?, Anthony L. Brueckner and John Martin Fischer
- Some puzzles about the evil of death, Fred Feldman
- Brain Death and the Uses of the Dead: Brain death and personal identity, Michael B. Green and Daniel Wikler
- Brain death: a durable consensus?, Daniel Wikler
- The dead donor rule: should we stretch it, bend it, or abandon it?, Robert M. Arnold and Stuart J Youngner
- Some must die, Stuart J. Youngner. Part II Decision-Making at the End of Life: Competent Patients: Medical paternalism, Allen Buchanan
- Arrogance, Franz J. Inglefinger
- Depression, competence and the right to refuse life-saving medical treatment, Mark D. Sullivan and Stuart J. Youngner
- Advance Directives: Do-not-resuscitate orders: no longer secret but still a problem, Stuart J. Youngner
- Advance directives and the personal identity problem, Allen Buchanan
- Why I don't have a living will, Joanne Lynn
- Incompetent Patients: Deciding for others, Alan Buchanan and Dan Brock
- The severely demented, minimally functional patient: an ethical analysis, John D. Arras
- Terminating life-sustaining treatment of the demented, Daniel Callahan
- Quality of life and non-treatment decisions for incompetent patients: a critique of the orthodox approach, Rebecca S. Dresser and John A. Robertson
- Continued treatment of the fatally ill for the benefit of others, Mark Yarborough
- The problem of proxies with interests of their own: toward a better theory of proxy decisions, John Hardwig
- Courts, gender and 'the right to die', Steven H. Miles and Allison August
- Children: Moral and ethical dilemmas in the special-care nursery, Raymond S. Duff and A.G.M. Campbell
- Involuntary euthanasia of defective newborns: a legal analysis, John A. Robertson
- Toward an ethic of ambiguity, John D. Arras
- Futility: Judging medical futility: an ethical analysis of medical power an
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