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  • Bioethics and the Human Goods

    An Introduction to Natural Law Bioethics

    by Alfonso Gómez-Lobo ...
    Bioethics and the Human Goods offers students and general readers a brief introduction to bioethics from a “natural law” philosophical perspective. This perspective, which traces its origins to classical antiquity, has profoundly shaped Western ethics and law and is enjoying an exciting renaissance. While compatible with much in the ethical thought of the great religions, it is grounded in reason, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Debating Euthanasia

    by Professor Emily Jackson, Professor John Keown ...
    Series series Debating Law
    In this new addition to the 'Debating Law' series, Emily Jackson and John Keown re-examine the legal and ethical aspects of the euthanasia debate.Emily Jackson argues that we owe it to everyone in society to do all that we can to ensure that they experience a 'good death'. For a small minority of patients who experience intolerable and unrelievable suffering, this may mean helping them to have an ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy

    An Argument against Legalisation

    by John Keown ...
    Series series Cambridge Bioethics and Law
    This book argues against the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and/or physician-assisted suicide on the ground that, even if they were ethically defensible in certain 'hard cases', neither could be effectively controlled by law. It maintains that the experience of legalisation in the Netherlands, Belgium and Oregon lends support to the two 'slippery slope' arguments against legalisation, the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Reason, Morality, and Law

    The Philosophy of John Finnis

    Edited by Robert P. George, John Keown DCL ...
    John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms, human agency, and the freedom of the will, personal identity, the common good, the role and ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • The Law and Ethics of Medicine

    Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life

    by John Keown ...
    The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of medical practice at the beginning and end of life. The book shows that the principle, though widely recognized as an historic and foundational principle of the common law, has been misunderstood in the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • The Law and Ethics of Medicine

    Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life

    by John Keown ...
    The Law and Ethics of Medicine: Essays on the Inviolability of Human Life explains the principle of the inviolability of human life and its continuing relevance to English law governing aspects of medical practice at the beginning and end of life. The book shows that the principle, though widely recognized as an historic and foundational principle of the common law, has been misunderstood in the ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

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  • Coping with Choices to Die

    by C. G. Prado ...
    This book examines the reactions of the friends and family of those who elect to die due to terminal illness. These surviving spouses, partners, relatives and friends, in addition to coping with the death of a loved one, must also deal with the loved one's decision to die, thus severing the relationship. C. G. Prado examines how reactions to elective death are influenced by cultural influences and ... Read more

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  • Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in Adults: Ethical and Legal Perspectives

    An overview on FASD for professionals

    Edited by Monty Nelson, Marguerite Trussler ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book discusses and provides insight on the legal and ethical dilemmas of managing those with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). This book provides a clear perspective for those clinicians and legal professionals who are working with those with this disorder, and correspondingly increases their understanding when arranging effective supports for this population. Historically, the primary ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Medical Law and Medical Ethics

    by Nils Hoppe, José Miola ...
    A focus on the interplay between medical law and medical ethics makes this refreshing new textbook the most balanced approach available to students of law and medicine. By offering a unique chapter structure which gives equal weight to both the legal and ethical issues it allows for an appreciation of all factors at play in the field of medical law. In addition, its student-friendly writing style ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Cosmic Constitutional Theory

    Why Americans Are Losing Their Inalienable Right to Self-Governance

    by J. Harvie Wilkinson, III ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    American constitutional law has undergone a transformation. Issues once left to the people have increasingly become the province of the courts. Subjects as diverse as abortion rights and firearms regulations, health care reform and counterterrorism efforts, not to mention a millennial presidential election, are more and more the domain of judges. What sparked this development? In this engaging ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Practical Reason and Norms

    by Joseph Raz ...
    Practical Reason and Norms focuses on three problems: In what way are rules normative, and how do they differ from ordinary reasons? What makes normative systems systematic? What distinguishes legal systems, and in what consists their normativity? All three questions are answered by taking reasons as the basic normative concept, and showing the distinctive role reasons have in every case, thus ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • Superstition

    Belief in the Age of Science

    by Robert L. Park ...
    Why the battle between superstition and science is far from overFrom uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to ... Read more

    $15.89 USD