This guide answers the most perplexing questions of our time. Briefly and accurately the authors present the medical, philosophical, and legal evidence. They also provide the texts of major court decisions, a "living will" form, and statements on the beginning of life and the ethics of civil disobedience.
A new collection of short fiction by the critically acclaimed author of Grace Notes ranges in setting and situation from a family caught up in sectarian violence to the terrifying reality of an Iowa blizzard and includes "Up the Coast," in ...
This volume offers biblical perspectives on humanness, infertility, the quest for the perfect child, genetics, biotechnology and stem cells, abortion and infanticide, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and concludes with a look at the future ...
A collection of passages concerning death and dying, and to consider the essential nature of general practice. This book is useful to doctors, especially those with an interest in medical humanities.
The story of one family's struggles under Apartheid in 1963. When their seventeen-year-old-son, Tiro, is arrested, the Maru family is thrust into the whirlwind of politics. At the end of...
"A genuine whodunnit" (Kirkus Reviews)--Phillip Margolin, the master of the courtroom thriller, returns with A Matter of Life and Death, a classic mind-bending puzzle, as Attorney Robin Lockwood must face her most challenging case yet, with ...
This book discusses modern medical ethical dilemas from a specifically conservative Jewish point of view.
Matters of Life and Death: New American Stories
In A Matter of Death and Life, Marilyn and Irv share how they took on profound new struggles: Marilyn to die a good death, Irv to live on without her.
Matters of Life and Death collects Picard's most compelling columns, covering a broad range of topics including Canada's right-to-die law, the true risks of the Zika virus, the financial challenges of a publicly funded health system, ...
The first edition of Life and Death Matters was a breakthrough text, centralizing the experiences of those on the front lines of environmental crises and forging new paradigms for understanding how crises emerge and how different groups of ...