The Right To Die: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

This book provides a comprehensive and contemporary examination of the right-to-die issues facing society now that vast improvements in public health care and medicine have resulted in people not only living longer but taking much longer to die--often in great pain and suffering. * Provides readers a clear picture of the complexity of the right-to-die controversy as it has emerged in the courts and in the political branches of state and federal governments * Presents perspectives written by advocates for and against the right to die that give personal insight into the reasons for their positions * Supplies a selection of primary source documents that represent viewpoints from both sides of the right-to-die controversy * Includes a fully annotated chapter that provides readers with secondary resources such as books, journal articles, and medical reports with which to explore the issue further

• | Author: Howard Ball
• | Publisher: ABC-CLIO
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 400 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1440843112
• | ISBN-13: 9781440843112