TY - BOOK AU - Cholbi,Michael TI - Euthanasia and assisted suicide: global views on choosing to end life SN - 9781440836794 AV - R726.C547.E984 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Santa Barbara, California PB - Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC KW - Assisted suicide KW - Euthanasia KW - ethics KW - legislation & jurisprudence KW - Suicide, Assisted KW - Attitude to Death KW - Cross-Cultural Comparison N1 - 2; History, practice, and law. --; Physician-assisted dying and the law in the United States: a perspective on three prospective futures; Arthur G. Svenson; Assisted Dying Bill for England and Wales; Rahael Cohen-Almagor ; --; Euthanasia and assisted suicide: attitudes and policies in Mexico; Asuncion Alvarez del Rio, Julieta Gomez Avalos, Isaac Gonzalez Huerta ; --; Suffering, compassion, and freedom: Mahayana Buddhism and East Asian attitudes toward assisted suicide and euthanasia; Brett Barleyman; Continental perspective on assisted suicide and euthanasia; Jack Simmons ; --; Christian perspectives on assisted dying: an issue for religious ethics; Lloyd Steffen --; Ethics and policy. --; Ethical evaluation of euthanasia in the Islamic tradition; Tuba Erkoc Baydar, Ilhan Ilkilic; Argument in favor of the morality of voluntary medically assisted death; Robert Young ; --; Limiting the right to die: Moral logic, professional integrity, societal ethos; Courtney S. Campbell ; --; Respect for personal autonomy in the justification of death-hastening choices; Paul T. Menzel ; --; Intention, permissibility, and the consistency of traditional end-of-life care; Joseph Boyle ; --; Assisted dying and palliation; Ben A. Rich ; --; Capacity and assisted dying; Colin Gavaghan ; --; Advance directives for euthanasia; Eric Volgelstein ; --; Pediatric euthanasia; Jacob M. Appel ; --; Traveling for assisted suicide; I. Glenn Cohen; 2 N2 - This book addresses key historical, scientific, legal, and philosophical issues surrounding euthanasia and assisted suicide in the United States as well as in other countries and cultures ER -