Living and Dying Well

✍ Scribed by Lewis Petrinovich (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 366
• Series: Critical Issues in Social Justice
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution,Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Objectives and Background Principles....Pages 1-26
Genetic Screening....Pages 27-43
The Human Genome Project....Pages 45-70
Death and Its Criteria....Pages 71-88
Organ Transplants....Pages 89-103
Suicide and Euthanasia....Pages 105-121
Euthanasia....Pages 123-142
Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards....Pages 143-168
Health-Care Policy....Pages 169-199
Two Proposed Health-Care Plans....Pages 201-231
Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform....Pages 233-262
A Single-Payer National Health Plan....Pages 263-279
Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues....Pages 281-302
The Great Health-Care Debate....Pages 303-320
Epilogue....Pages 321-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-362

✦ Subjects

Theory of Medicine/Bioethics; Health Psychology; Social Policy