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Author:

Jones, Robert P. (Robert Patrick)

Title:

Liberalism's troubled search for equality : religion and cultural bias in the Oregon physician-assisted suicide debates / Robert P. Jones.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xiii, 336 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Assisted suicide--Religious aspects.
Right to die--Religious aspects.
Euthanasia--Religious aspects.
Assisted suicide--Social aspects.
Right to die--Social aspects.
Euthanasia--Social aspects.
Suicide, Assisted--ethics.
Politics
Religion
Right to Die--ethics.
Social justice.
United States

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-324) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : liberalism and moral vision -- Physician-assisted suicide and Dworkin's equality of resources -- Interlude : inequality and hardship in America -- An idea whose time has come? the historical and legal context of the Oregon Death with Dignity Act -- The social sources of physician-assisted suicide -- The moral logics of physician-assisted suicide -- Missing persons -- Cultural bias -- Physician-assisted suicide as an expensive taste : an egalitarian critique -- Conclusion : toward an egalitarian liberalism.

ISBN:

026803267X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268032678 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)76967122

LCCN:

2006039827

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)