附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-428).
In the matter of Karen Quinlan / Supreme Court of New Jersey -- Majority opinion in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (selections) / Supreme Court of the United States -- Prolonging life : some legal considerations / George P. Fletcher -- An irrelevant consideration : killing versus letting die / Michael Tooley -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- The intentional termination of life / Bonnie Steinbock -- Active and passive euthanasia : an impertinent distinction? / Thomas D. Sullivan -- More impertinent distinctions and a defense of active euthanasia / James Rachels -- Coming to terms : a response to Rachels / Thomas D. Sullivan -- Whatever the consequences / Jonathan Bennett -- On killing and letting die / Daniel Dinello -- Is killing the innocent absolutely immoral? / Jeffrie G. Murphy -- The moral equivalence of action and omission / Judith Lichtenberg -- Negation and abstention : two theories of allowing / Jonathan Bennett -- The survival lottery / John Harris -- The problem of abortion and the doctrine of the double effect / Philippa Foot -- Killing and letting die / Philippa Foot -- Saving life and taking life / Richard Trammell -- The priority of avoiding harm / N. Ann Davis -- Actions, intentions, and consequences : the doctrine of doing and allowing / Warren S. Quinn -- Killing, letting die, and withdrawing aid / Jeff McMahan.
摘要:This collection contains twenty-one thought-provoking essays on the controversies surrounding the moral and legal distinctions between euthanasia and "letting die." Since public awareness of this issue has increased, this second edition includes nine entirely new essays which bring the treatment of the subject up-to-date. The urgency of this issue can be gauged in recent developments such as the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in the Netherlands, "how-to" manuals topping the bestseller charts in the United States, and the many headlines devoted to Dr. Jack Kevorkian, who has assisted a number of patients to die. The essays address the range of questions involved in this issue pertaining especially to the fields of medical ethics, public policymaking, and social philosophy. The discussions consider the decisions facing medical and public policymakers, how those decisions will affect the elderly and terminally ill, and the medical and legal ramifications for patients in a permanently vegetative state, as well as issues of parent/infant rights. The book is divided into two sections. The first, "Euthanasia and the Termination of Life-Prolonging Treatment," includes an examination of the 1976 Karen Quinlan Supreme Court decision and selections from the 1990 Supreme Court decision in the case of Nancy Cruzan. Featured are articles by law professor George Fletcher and philosophers Michael Tooley, James Rachels, and Bonnie Steinbock, with new articles by Rachels and Thomas Sullivan. The second section, "Philosophical Considerations," probes more deeply into the theoretical issues raised by the killing/letting die controversy, illustrating the dispute between two rival theories of ethics, consequentialism and deontology. It also includes a corpus of the standard thought on the debate by Jonathan Bennett, Daniel Dinello, Jeffrie Murphy, John Harris, Philippa Foot, Richard Trammell, and N. Ann Davis, and adds articles new to this edition by Bennett, Foot, Warren
