Life's Living Toward Dying: A Theological and Medical-Ethical Study - Brossura

Guroian, Vigen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0802841902 ISBN 13: 9780802841902

Casa editrice: Eerdmans Pub Co, 1996

Riassunto

In the past several years our culture's long-standing prohibitions against suicide and euthanasia have been seriously challenged. A great tidal change in morality and law may be occurring as the courts seem to be creating a new right - the individual's right to die. In the fall of 1994 the people of Oregon voted to legalize physician-assisted suicide; Michigan's courts continue to acquit Dr. Jack Kevorkian for his involvement in the deaths of more than two dozen patients; and in several states federal appeals courts have struck down statutes that prohibited physician-assisted suicide. In Life's Living toward Dying Vigen Guroian responds to this challenge. He discusses society's moral confusion over the meaning of death and gives a Christian alternative for care of the dying that is consistent with the strong value that the Christian church has ascribed to human life.

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L'autore

Vigen Guroian is professor of theology and ethics at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, and has served on the faculty of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Seminary in Baltimore since 1986.

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Book by Guroian Mr Vigen

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Eerdmans Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0802841902
• ISBN 13: 9780802841902
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 108