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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $4.12
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Manufacturer: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ramesh Ponnuru
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Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.46
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Publication Date: 2006-04-24
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Reading Level: 320
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.78
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sidney Wanzer::Joseph Glenmullen
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Pbk. Ed
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 2008-02-25
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Knowing our rights to refuse treatment, and ways to bring death earlier if pain or distress cannot be alleviated, will spare us the frightening helplessness that can rob our last days of meaning and personal connection. Drs. Wanzer and Glenmullen clarify what patients should insist of their doctors, including the right to enough pain medication even if it shortens life. Everyone needs their wise and comforting advice.
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Price: $8.95
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Sale: $4.39
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Manning
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 1998-09
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: A concise overview of the history and arguments surrounding euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.93
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Manufacturer: Georgetown University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Georgetown University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 2007-10-15
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Reading Level: 294
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Price: $59.95
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Sale: $6.67
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Ian Dowbiggin
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 2003-01-09
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: While it may seem that debates over euthanasia began with Jack Kervorkian, the practice of mercy killing extends back to Ancient Greece and beyond. In America, the debate has raged for well over a century.
Now, in A Merciful End, Ian Dowbiggin offers the first full-scale historical account of one of the most controversial reform movements in America. Drawing on unprecedented access to the archives of the Euthanasia Society of America, interviews with important figures in the movement today, and flashpoint cases such as the tragic fate of Karen Ann Quinlan, Dowbiggin tells the dramatic story of the men and women who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attitude--and its laws--regarding mercy killing. In tracing the history of the euthanasia movement, he documents its intersection with other progressive social causes: women's suffrage, birth control, abortion rights, as well as its uneasy pre-WWII alliance with eugenics. Such links brought euthanasia activists into fierce conflict with Judeo-Christian institutions who worried that "the right to die" might become a "duty to die." Indeed, Dowbiggin argues that by joining a sometimes overzealous quest to maximize human freedom with a desire to "improve" society, the euthanasia movement has been dogged by the fear that mercy killing could be extended to persons with disabilities, handicapped newborns, unconscious geriatric patients, lifelong criminals, and even the poor. Justified or not, such fears have stalled the movement, as more and more Americans now prefer better end-of-life care than wholesale changes in euthanasia laws.
For anyone trying to decide whether euthanasia offers a humane alternative to prolonged suffering or violates the "sanctity of life," A Merciful End provides fascinating and much-needed historical context.
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Price: $14.50
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Sale: $1.84
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Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Betty Rollin
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.19699465
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Publication Date: 1998-08-27
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller--an intimate, fiercely honest memoir of a daughter's struggle to come to terms with her terminally ill mother's decision to die--now back in print in trade paperback with a new reader's guide inside.
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $4.55
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Manufacturer: Dell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Derek Humphry
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Publisher: Dell
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Edition: 2nd Rev
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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.28
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Publication Date: 1997-03-10
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Standing at the center of a heated controversy and sparking national debate, Final Exit has become a crucial handbook for people looking to end their suffering from unbearable pain due to terminal or incurable illness. This careful, concise, and compassionate manual includes:
How to commit suicide with sleeping pills, preferably with the aid of a loved one
A chart listing lethal doses of fourteen drugs
Legal considerations, life insurance, and living wills
Finding the right doctor, hospice care, and pain control
Letters to leave behind and how to write a self-deliverance checklist
Psychological support groups for the dying and suicide hotlines for depression
Plus much more invaluable advice on self-deliverance and assisted suicide
For mature adults opting to end their lives or anyone interested in this controversial and timely topic, Final Exit, the only book of its kind, provides the answers.
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $14.87
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul Chamberlain
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 174.24
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Publication Date: 2000-05
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Reading Level: 215
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Description: Recipient of an Honourable Mention in the 2001 God Uses Ink Contest!Patrick is dying a slow, agonizing death. He wants his friend, Dr. Ron Grey, to help him--but not to get better. Instead, Patrick wants Ron to help him end his suffering by ending his life.This is the premise of a story that Paul Chamberlain employs to reveal the ethical and emotional complexities of a movement that is gaining supporters daily. It is a story that sends Ron Grey on a difficult journey across a continent and through a minefield of conflicting ideas and values.Should people have a legal right to choose the time of their death? Can adequate safeguards be employed to protect the public from potential abuses of physician-assisted suicide laws? What does it mean for people to die with dignity? Will people feel an obligation not to burden their families with their prolonged illness? What has been the experience in the Netherlands, which has had a physician-assisted suicide law for over twenty-five years? What about the possibility of misdiagnosis? Is there a legitimate public interest in what appears to be a purely private act? Can morality be legislated at all?Paul Chamberlain considers all of these vital issues clearly and carefully. Yet as we move through the legal, political, medical and ethical questions, he also helps us to see the personal side of these topics played out in the context of a caring family and a deep friendship. Here is a timely and helpful book on one of the most controversial concerns of our day.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $2.87
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jonathan Moreno
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 1995-10-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The proliferation of life-prolonging technology in recent years has made the controversy over the "right to die" and physician-assisted suicide one of the most explosive medical and ethical issues of our day. Dr. Jack Kevorkian's "suicide machine" has commanded front-page coverage for several years, while in 1994 Oregon passed a measure allowing the terminally ill to obtain lethal prescriptions for suicide, and other states have placed similar proposals on their ballots. Arguing Euthanasia brings together for the first time an impressive array of viewpoints from both sides of this emotionally charged question as well as voices from the gravely ill and their loved ones. Beginning with a selection of pieces from the New England Journal of Medicine, where the debate was ignited in 1988, Arguing Euthanasia features essays by such outspoken advocates of active euthanasia as Timothy Quill and Sidney Hook, and important social critics and commentators such as Nat Hentoff, Leon R. Kass, and Ronald Dworkin. As they probe the legal and ethical issues at the heart of physician-assisted suicide, these essays offer invaluable insights not only for those caring for the terminally ill but for anyone concerned with the deeper philosophical conflict between enduring life-oriented values and personal dignity that lies at the heart of this controversy.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.64
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Manufacturer: Encounter Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Wesley J. Smith
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Publisher: Encounter Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 179.7
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Publication Date: 2006-06-25
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Reading Level: 350
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Description: Filled with new reporting and research, this expanded edition of a classic book makes a compelling case against legalized euthanasia and takes a closer look at the truly humane and compassionate alternatives.
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