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Singer Peter, Peter

 
9780192861849: Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
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ISBN 10: 0192861840 ISBN 13: 9780192861849
Editorial: Oxford, 1995

Sinopsis

A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life. Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place. Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must make about life and death.

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Peter Singer is Professor of Philosophy and Deputy Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University, Melbourne. He is the author of the Oxford Reader on Ethics, and Applied Ethics in the Oxford Readings in Philosophy. He is best-known for his books Animal Liberation, and The Way We Live Now.

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Editorial
Oxford
Año de publicación
1995
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0192861840
ISBN 13 
9780192861849
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
276
Contacto del fabricante
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