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Suicide, the philosophical issues / edited by M. Pabst Battin and David J. Mayo.

Battin, M. Pabst. (Added Author). Mayo, David J., 1940- (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 0312775318
  • ISBN: 9780312775315
  • Physical Description: viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, [1980]

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Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- The historical background / A. Alvarez -- Conceptual issues. Did Socrates commit suicide? / R.G. Frey ; The concept of suicide / Peter Y. Windt ; Suicide and self-sacrifice / Robert M. Martin -- The morality of suicide. Suicide : some theological reflections / P.R. Baelz ; Suicide and covenant / Karen Lebacqz & H. Tristram Engelhardt ; Apologia for suicide / Mary Rose Barrington ; The ethics of not-being : individual options for suicide / Colleen D. Clements -- The rationality of suicide. The rationality of suicide / Richard B. Brandt ; Irrational suicide / David J. Mayo ; On choosing death / Philip E. Devine ; Suicide and false desires / Robert M. Martin ; Suicide as instrument and expression / David Wood ; The art of suicide / Joyce Carol Oates ; Manipulated suicide / M. Pabst Battin -- Suicide and psychiatry. The ethics of suicide / Thomas S. Szasz ; Choosing the time to die / Eliot Slater ; Suicide prevention and the value of human life / Erwin Ringel ; The right to suicide : a psychiatrist's view / Jerome A. Motto -- Suicide, law, and rights. Suicide and the inalienable right to life / Joel Feinberg ; A constitutional right to suicide / Alan L. Sullivan ; Assisting suicide : a problem for the criminal law / Leslie Pickering Francis ; Suicide : a fundamental human right? / M. Pabst Battin ; Suicide and virtue / James Bogen.
Subject: Suicide.

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