The right to die : a reference handbook
(Book - Regular Print)

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xxiii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Prescott Public Library - NF - Nonfiction Books
179.7 BAL
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Book - Regular Print
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-328).
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"The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook provides a complete examination of right-to-die issues in the United States that dissects the complex arguments for and against a person's liberty to receive a physician's assistance to hasten death. It covers the legal aspects and the politics of the right-to-die controversy, analyzes the battles over the right to die in state and federal courts, and supplies primary source documents that illustrate the political, medical, legal, religious, and ethical landscape of the right to die. Additionally, the book examines how members of our society typically die has changed in the past 150 years and how the practice of medicine has evolved over that time; explains why the right to die is strongly opposed by many religious groups as well as members of the medical profession; considers the "slippery slope" argument against doctor-assisted suicide; and identifies the reasons that the disabled, the poor, the elderly and infirm, and some members of ethnic, racial, and religious minority groups typically fear physician-assisted death."--Publisher's website.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ball, H. The right to die: a reference handbook .

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ball, Howard, 1937-. The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook. .

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ball, Howard, 1937-. The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook .

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ball, Howard. The Right to Die: A Reference Handbook

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