Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow.

  • Shershow, Scott Cutler, 1953-
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

Physical description

xxii, 205 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: the sacred part -- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction -- Dignity and sanctity -- Dignity and sovereignty -- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant -- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate -- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant -- Sacrifice and the right to die -- A debate deconstructed.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9780226088129
  • 022608812X