Download or read book Euthanasia Abortion Death Penalty and Religion The Right to Life and its Limitations written by Hans-Georg Ziebertz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how the termination of life might be accepted in the view of a general obligation to protect life. It features more than 10 papers written by scholars from 14 countries that offer international comparative empirical research. Inside, readers will find case studies from such areas as: India, Chile, Germany, Italy, England, Palestine, Lithuania, Nigeria, and Poland. The papers focus on three limitations of the right to life: the death penalty, abortion, and euthanasia. The contributors explore how young people understand and evaluate the right to life and its limitations. The book presents unique empirical research among today's youth and reveals that, among other concepts, religiosity matters. It provides insight into the acceptance, perception, and legitimation of human rights by people from different religious and cultural backgrounds. This investigation rigorously tests for inter-individual differences regarding political and judicial rights on religious grounds, while controlling for other characteristics. It will help readers better understand the many facets of this fundamental, yet controversial, philosophical question. The volume will be of interest to students, researchers, as well as general readers searching for answers.

Download or read book Life s Dominion written by Ronald Dworkin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned lawyer and philosopher Ronald Dworkin addresses the crucially related acts of abortion and euthanasia in a brilliantly original book that examines their meaning in a nation that prizes both life and individual liberty. From Roe v. Wade to the legal battle over the death of Nancy Cruzan, no issues have opened greater rifts in American society than those of abortion and euthanasia. At the heart of Life's Dominion is Dworkin's inquest into why abortion and euthanasia provoke such controversy. Do these acts violate some fundamental "right to life"? Or are the objections against them based on the belief that human life is sacred? Combining incisive moral reasoning and close readings of indicidual court decisions with a majestic interpretation of the U.S. Constitution itself, Dworkin gives us a work that is absolutely essential for anyone who cares about the legal status of human life.

Download or read book Matters of Life and Death written by Francis Beckwith and published by Baker Publishing Group (MI). This book was released on 1991 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide answers the most perplexing questions of our time. Briefly and accurately the authors present the medical, philosophical, and legal evidence. They also provide the texts of major court decisions, a "living will" form, and statements on the beginning of life and the ethics of civil disobedience.

Download or read book Abortion and Mercy Killing written by John P. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Morality of Killing written by Marvin Kohl and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abortion and Euthanasia written by Jonas Benson Okoye (J.C.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Islamic Ethics of Life written by Jonathan E. Brockopp and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering work on controversial issues within the Muslim world Islamic Ethics of Life considers three of the most contentious ethical issues of our time--abortion, war, and euthanasia--from the Muslim perspective. Distinguished scholars of Islamic studies have collaborated to produce a volume that both integrates Muslim thinking into the field of applied ethics and introduces readers to an aspect of the religion long overlooked in the West. This collective effort sets forth the relationship between Islamic ethics and law, clearly revealing the complexity and richness of the Islamic tradition as well as its responsiveness to these controversial modern issues. The contributors analyze classical sources and survey the modern ethical landscape to identify guiding principles within Islamic ethical thought. Clarifying the importance of pragmatism in Islamic decision making, the contributors also offer case studies related to specialized topics, including "wrongful birth" claims, terrorist attacks, and brain death. The case studies elicit possible variations on common Muslim perspectives. The contributors situate Muslim ethics relative to Christian and secular accounts of the value of human life, exposing surprising similarities and differences. In an introductory overview of the volume, Jonathan E. Brockopp underscores the steady focus on God as the one who determines the value of human life, and hence as the final arbiter of Islamic ethics. A foreword by Gene Outka places the volume in the context of general ethical studies, and an afterword by A. Kevin Reinhart suggests some significant ramifications for comparative religious ethics.

Download or read book Medical Ethics written by Robert Laurence Barry and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, controversial topics such as the morality of abortion, withdrawing treatment from handicapped newborns, the role of ethics committees, diagnosing death, withdrawing food and fluids and giving lethal injections are discussed. It proposes model legislation to prevent abuse and neglect of the medically vulnerable and dependent, and in a piercing and insightful manner, Fr. Barry critically evaluates many contemporary views on these topics, arguing forcefully for a reappraisal of many popular views on these topics.

Download or read book Abortion and Euthanasia written by Craig Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Choose Life and Not Death written by William Maestri and published by Saint Pauls/Alba House. This book was released on 1986 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catholic teaching on abortion, euthanasia and suicide.

Download or read book Consistently Opposing Killing written by Rachel M. MacNair and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explains an increasingly popular view dubbed the Consistent Life Ethic, which holds that all life deserves reverence, so all social support for actions that destroy life should be withdrawn. The call is for opposition to abortion, capital punishment, euthanasia and other forms of killing to be consistent. Supporters of this view, shared widely in these pages, include figures from the Dalai Lama and Nobel Peace Prize winner Malread Corrifon Maguire to actor Martin Sheen and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff. It is at once an ethical, religious and political ideology, explored here in its application to actions from treatment of unborn humans to infants, the disabled, the poverty-stricken, war combatants and animals. In the work at hand, contributors explain the history of the pro-life movement, its growth and expansion, how these types of seemingly disparate killing are all linked, why a Consistent Life Ethic is needed, and how individuals can take steps to assure this ethic is more widely accepted.

Download or read book Medical Ethics in Antiquity written by P. Carrick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of reviewing the ethical concerns of ancient medicine with an eye as to how they might instruct us about the extremely lively disputes of our own contemporary medicine is such a natural one that it surprises us to real ize how very slow we have been to pursue it in a sustained way_ Ideologues have often seized on the very name of Hippocrates to close off debate about such matters as abortion and euthanasia - as if by appeal to a well-known and sacred authority that no informed person would care or dare to oppose_ And yet, beneath the polite fakery of such reference, we have deprived our selves of a familiarity with the genuinely 'unsimple' variety of Greek and Roman reflections on the great questions of medical ethics. The fascination of recovering those views surely depends on one stunning truism at least: humans sicken and die; they must be cared for by those who are socially endorsed to specialize in the task; and the changes in the rounds of human life are so much the same from ancient times to our own that the disputes and agreements of the past are remarkably similar to those of our own.

Download or read book Let s Talk written by Charles Everett Koop and published by Zondervan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of letters between Koop, a former Surgeon General, and Johnson, medical editor for ABC News.

Download or read book Causing Death and Saving Lives written by Jonathan Glover and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-06-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and othe life-or-death choices.

Download or read book Assisted Suicide The Liberal Humanist Case Against Legalization written by K. Yuill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an atheistic case against the legalization of assisted suicide. Critical of both sides of the argument, it questions the assumptions behind the discussion. Yuill shows that our attitudes towards suicide – not euthanasia – are most important to our attitudes towards assisted suicide.

Download or read book Abortion Euthanasia and Infanticide written by Terrence Morrissey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with facts. Although there is a smattering throughout the writing of personal thoughts, suggestions and comments, the writer has endeavored to leave the reader with, hopefully, enough factual information to draw some pretty startling conclusions regarding the subjects of Abortion, Euthanasia and Infanticide. By observing that almost all discussions are centered on two primary ideas; One, that God is the final say on these subjects and here generally ends the Christian perspective and argument (in most cases). Secondly "A woman has a right to decide what she can do with her own body" and here ends the culmination of the opossing argument. In an effort to persuade those who hold the above lines of reasoning, that there is much more to Euthnasia, Abortion and Infanticide, the author went looking for experts on these subjects and what arguments might be both in favor of and against the subject matter Referring to a story in the Milwaukee Sentinal the author quotes from the story. The newspaper reported that police had arrested four children ages four to eleven, who were throwing a fetus off a bridge. The youngsters had retreived 22 aborted babies from a nearby dumpster. The subtitle of the book is where the author would like to draw your attention. "A Slippery Slope." For without due care, love and immaculate attention to these matters, we, as a society, could very well end up exactly like the unborn, the elderly, the disabled and the so called 'Unfit' or as Hitler called them "Useless Eaters" ended up....in well organized Death Camps. "Too far fetched, for an enlightened society, ' you might think. This book responds with...that is exactly what the people thought a short sixty years ago." Good book, Keep an open mind and then draw your own conclusions. The main characters are those of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Download or read book Abortion and Euthanasia written by Craig Donnellan and published by . This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capt.1; Abortion. Capt.2; Euthanasia