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Hardcover. Condición: New. Canadian historian Dowbiggin succeeds admirably in setting today's debate over physician-assisted suicide and the 'right to die' in the context of major intellectual and political trends of the twentieth century. Before World War I, the idea of euthanasia attracted progressive thinkers seeking to apply… Darwinian science to social problems and moral issues once considered religion's domain. Theodore Roosevelt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Helen Keller, and feminists such as Margaret Sanger (who equated 'death control' with birth control as essential to individual liberty) were among its prominent backers. Drawing on the movement's archives, the author traces the rise of the Euthanasia Society of America with its disquieting affinity for eugenics, its post-war transformation into the Society for the Right to Die, and its modern manifestations in Jack Kevorkian, Oregon's suicide initiative, and grassroots fears that medical advances will deprive Americans of death with dignity and force us to share the fates of Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan. Although Dowbiggin concludes that acceptance of euthanasia has declined since its peak in the 1990s, he never oversimplifies the issues at stake. The compelling stories in this book anchor euthanasia to the heart of our modern cultural divide, which pits boundless individualism against meaningful community, asserts the need to free sex and death from unhealthy taboos even as the social fabric unravels - and leaves unanswered the great question of what it means to be human apart from religion and the divine. 249 pp.

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Hardback. Condición: New. Illustrated. How did today's debate over euthanasia (taken from the Greek word for 'good death') become so divisive in American society? In A Merciful End Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's…attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide.Having had access to confidential records in the United States, England and Canada, and having interviewed leading figures in the American euthanasia movement, he reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century, long before Jack Kevorkian began helping patients to die. Over the course of the twentieth century, a group of public-spirited men and women tried to break down ancient Judeo-Christian prohibitions against mercy killing, overturn state laws criminalizing assisted suicide, and convince the US Supreme Court that there is a right to die in the Constitution. In their eagerness to succeed, these euthanasia advocates have often sanctioned public policies that blur the fine line between choice and duty, freedom and coercion, the rights of the individual and the needs of society. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had won some small victories, and the debate over whose lives were worth living still raged, but Dowbiggin argues that more and more Americans seemed to prefer better end-of-life care to sweeping changes in laws about euthanasia. America's euthanasia movement entered the twenty-first century ready and willing to fight new wars but facing an uphill battle against sentiments such as these.Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia, A Merciful End is an illuminating and cautionary account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. It provides a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate.

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Condición: as new. Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xix, 250 pp. Ills. - How did today's debate over euthanasia (taken from the Greek word for ''good death'') become so divisive in American society? In A Merciful End Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those ref…ormers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation''s attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide.Having had access to confidential records in the United States, England and Canada, and having interviewed leading figures in the American euthanasia movement, he reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century, long before Jack Kevorkian began helping patients to die. Over the course of the twentieth century, a group of public-spirited men and women tried to break down ancient Judeo-Christian prohibitions against mercy killing, overturn state lawscriminalizing assisted suicide, and convince the US Supreme Court that there is a right to die in the Constitution. In their eagerness to succeed, these euthanasia advocates have often sanctioned public policies that blur the fine line between choice and duty, freedom and coercion, the rights of theindividual and the needs of society. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had won some small victories, and the debate over whose lives were worth living still raged, but Dowbiggin argues that more and more Americans seemed to prefer better end-of-life care to sweeping changes in laws about euthanasia. America''s euthanasia movement entered the twenty-first century ready and willing to fight new wars but facing an uphill battle against sentiments such as these.Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia, A Merciful End is an illuminating and cautionary account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. It provides a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780195154436, Keywords : HISTORY, philosophy of law.

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Condición: New. Tells the story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change America's attitude towards mercy killing and assisted suicide. This work reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century. It is an account of the tension between motives and methods withi…n twentieth century social reform. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBQ; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584. . 2003. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .

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Hardback. Condición: New. Illustrated. How did today's debate over euthanasia (taken from the Greek word for 'good death') become so divisive in American society? In A Merciful End Ian Dowbiggin tells, for the first time, the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's…attitudes towards mercy killing and assisted suicide.Having had access to confidential records in the United States, England and Canada, and having interviewed leading figures in the American euthanasia movement, he reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century, long before Jack Kevorkian began helping patients to die. Over the course of the twentieth century, a group of public-spirited men and women tried to break down ancient Judeo-Christian prohibitions against mercy killing, overturn state laws criminalizing assisted suicide, and convince the US Supreme Court that there is a right to die in the Constitution. In their eagerness to succeed, these euthanasia advocates have often sanctioned public policies that blur the fine line between choice and duty, freedom and coercion, the rights of the individual and the needs of society. By the dawn of the twenty-first century, they had won some small victories, and the debate over whose lives were worth living still raged, but Dowbiggin argues that more and more Americans seemed to prefer better end-of-life care to sweeping changes in laws about euthanasia. America's euthanasia movement entered the twenty-first century ready and willing to fight new wars but facing an uphill battle against sentiments such as these.Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia, A Merciful End is an illuminating and cautionary account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. It provides a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate.

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Hardcover. Condición: new. Hardcover. 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 o…f 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 thetwentieth 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 arguesthat 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 topersons 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-neededhistorical context. Tells the story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change America's attitude towards mercy killing and assisted suicide. This work reveals that euthanasia has been a contentious issue in America for over a century. It is an account of the tension between motives and methods within twentieth century social reform. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Buch. Condición: Neu. A Merciful End | The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America | Ian Dowbiggin | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2003 | Oxford University Press | EAN 9780195154436 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.