 |
|
Choosing to Die: Elective Death and MulticulturalismMedically Assisted Death
Choosing to Die: Elective Death and Multiculturalism
By C. G. Prado
224 pp, $85.50
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-7484-7
Medically Assisted Death
By Robert Young
260 pp, $90.95
New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-5218-8024-4
JAMA. 2008;300(14):1703-1704.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. |
|
|
|
Two books on virtually the same important but touchy topic, both closely reasoned, each published by the same press at about the same time, and each written by a professor of philosophy (Prado is Canadian, Young Australian) who advocates (Prado more cautiously than Young) for rational suicide—these are the similarities. But the differences between them are plain. Prado's book is a pedantic and somewhat arcane academic treatise; Young's is a book of relevance to clinicians, particularly clinical bioethicists.
On the first page of his preface, Prado recognizes the difficulties he faces. He describes presenting the substance of his first 2 chapters at a recent end-of-life conference. The participants were mostly clinicians. As he recalls, "I regret that the comments and questions about the material presented made it clear that few in the audience thought what I had to say was relevant to their work" (p ix). Therefore, he tells readers . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Ernle W. D. Young, PhD, Reviewer
Department of Medicine (Biomedical Ethics) (Emeritus)
Stanford University
ernleyoung@earthlink.net
 CiteULike  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
|
