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Living and Dying Well
Lewis Petrinovich
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Description for Living and Dying Well
Hardback. Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. This book considers such issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; and, the allowance of suicide and euthanasia. Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice. Num Pages: 362 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; J; MBDC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1600.
Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.
Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Series
Critical Issues in Social Justice
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306451713
SKU
V9780306451713
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Reviews for Living and Dying Well
`Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.' Evolution and Human ... Read more