Death Talk
The Case Against Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2001
- Category
- Physician & Patient
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- ISBN
- 9780773569317
- Publish Date
- Dec 2001
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
There are vast ethical, legal, and social differences between natural death and euthanasia. In Death Talk Margaret Somerville argues that legalizing euthanasia would cause irreparable harm to society's value of respect for human life, which in secular societies is carried primarily by the institutions of law and medicine.
About the author
Margaret Somerville is Gale Professor of Law, professor in the Faculty of Medicine, and founding director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law at McGill University. She is the author of Death Talk: The Case against Euthanasia and Physician-A
