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The right to die : a reference handbook / Howard Ball.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Howard, 1937-
- Series:
- Contemporary world issues.
- Contemporary world issues
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Euthanasia--United States.
- Euthanasia.
- Right to die--United States.
- Right to die.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 368 pages) : illustrations.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.
- Summary:
- This book examines the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die, often in great pain and suffering. It covers the legal aspects and the politics of the controversy, analyzes the battles in state and federal courts, and supplies primary sources illustrating the political, medical, legal, religious, and ethical landscape of the right to die.
- Contents:
- 1. Background and History
- 2. Problems, Controversies, and Solutions
- 3. Perspectives
- 4. Profiles
- 5. Data and Documents
- 7. Chronology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798216008972
- 9798216139799
- 9781440843129
- 1440843120
- OCLC:
- 1013507490
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