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Angels Of Death: Exploring The Euthanasia Underground
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MUP Melbourne 2002, 2002
ISBN 10: 0522849709
ISBN 13: 9780522849707
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23 x 15.5cm 325pp softcover very good. Collection of detailed first-hand accounts by health care professionals who have been participants in assisted death. Codice articolo 20436964
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Angels of Death : Exploring the Euthanasia Underground
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Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic, 2002
ISBN 10: 0522849709
ISBN 13: 9780522849707
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Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. xvii+325pp., Pictorial full colour illustrated covers, foreword by The Hon. Justice Michael Kirby, intro., tables, appends., notes, bibliog., index. Angels of Death provides a window into the 'euthanasia underground'- a secret part of medicine and nursing that few professionals will publicly acknowledge. Size: Octavo. Book. Codice articolo 001778
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Angels of Death (Paperback)
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Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1998
ISBN 10: 0522849709
ISBN 13: 9780522849707
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Angels of Death provides a window into the 'euthanasia underground'-a secret part of medicine and nursing that few professionals will publicly acknowledge.Public discussion of euthanasia and assisted suicide is growing. In Australia as elsewhere the debate is difficult, contentious and confronting, and hampered by the secrecy that necessarily surrounds illegal practice. Most people simply have no way of knowing how, and how often, medically assisted death actually occurs.Roger Magnusson presents, for the first time, detailed first-hand accounts by doctors, nurses, therapists and other health professionals who have been participants in assisted death. All have been intimately involved in caring for people with AIDS, both in Australia and in California. He places these ambivalent, self-incriminating accounts within the broader context of the right-to-die debate and the challenges of palliative care.The frankness of the health workers and the richness of their collected evidence set this book apart. From within a culture of deception they speak knowingly and movingly of the merciful release of a peaceful death, while acknowledging the reality of 'botched attempts', euthanasia without consent, precipitative euthanasia, lack of accountability and professional distance, and many other disturbing issues.Angels of Death provides a window into the 'euthanasia underground'-a secret part of medicine and nursing that few professionals will publicly acknowledge. It brings a sense of urgency and precision to public debate, and equips us all to think more independently about these crucial issues. Presenting the findings of an interview-based study of illicit euthanasia as practised by health professionals working with HIV/AIDS patients. The author conducted 49 interviews to provide an insight into the social practices that suround illicit assisted sucide and euthanasia. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Codice articolo 9780522849707
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