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Living and Dying Well

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. Lewis Petrinovich

    1. University of California, Riverside, USA

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Part of the book series: Critical Issues in Social Justice (CISJ)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Objectives and Background Principles

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 1-26

  3. Genetic Screening

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 27-43

  4. The Human Genome Project

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 45-70

  5. Death and Its Criteria

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 71-88

  6. Organ Transplants

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 89-103

  7. Suicide and Euthanasia

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 105-121

  8. Euthanasia

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 123-142

  9. Medical Ethics and Hospital Review Boards

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 143-168

  10. Health-Care Policy

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 169-199

  11. Two Proposed Health-Care Plans

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 201-231

  12. Problems in Achieving Health-Care Reform

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 233-262

  13. A Single-Payer National Health Plan

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 263-279

  14. Moral, Medical, and Financial Issues

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 281-302

  15. The Great Health-Care Debate

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 303-320

  16. Epilogue

    • Lewis Petrinovich
    Pages 321-328

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 329-362
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About this book

Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

Reviews

`Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.'
Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4)

`Interesting and timely.'
Choice, November 1996

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of California, Riverside, USA

    Lewis Petrinovich

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Living and Dying Well

  • Authors: Lewis Petrinovich

  • Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0206-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45171-3Published: 29 February 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0208-5Published: 31 May 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0206-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-1906

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 362

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Health Psychology, Social Policy

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