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Author Prado, C. G

Title Choosing to Die : Elective Death and Multiculturalism
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Setting the Stage; 2 Criteria for Rational Suicide; 3 Clarifying and Revising the Criteria; 4 Application Issues; 5 What Standards?; 6 Relativism and Cross-Cultural Assessment; 7 The Role of Religion; 8 Assessment Latitude; 9 The Realities of Cross-Cultural Assessment; Works Cited; Index
Summary Prado addresses the question of whether it is rational to end one's life in order to escape devastating terminal illness
Notes Print version record
Subject Right to die.
Patient refusal of treatment.
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
Right to Die
Treatment Refusal
Death -- Moral and ethical aspects
Patient refusal of treatment
Right to die
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780511386077
0511386079
1281254711
9781281254719