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Almost Over
- Aging, Dying, Dead
Af: F.M. Kamm
Engelsk Paperback
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Almost Over
- Aging, Dying, Dead
Af: F.M. Kamm
Engelsk Paperback

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In Almost Over, F. M. Kamm presents a wide-ranging philosophical discussion of the moral, legal, and medical issues related to aging, dying, and death. She begins by considering different views about whether and why death is bad for the person who dies and what these views imply about the death of humanity. She then considers whether there are conditions under which it might make sense to deliberately bring a person''s death about, given the processes of aging and dying that precede it. In the opinion of some it is not only serious illness but ordinary aging that may give rise to this question and Kamm pays particular attention to the various ways in which aging could affect the distribution of "goods" and "bads" in a particular life. Specifically, she considers how the limitations and changes due to aging and the dying process affect meaning in one''s life, and whether the absence of meaning affects the reasonableness of not resisting or even seeking one''s death. Kamm explores these questions not only as they relate to individuals'' decisions but also as they relate to public policy and state action. Recently attempts have been made to help the general public think about end-of-life issues by devising questionnaires and conversation guides; Kamm evaluates some of these resources and articulates the moral implications of the assumptions they make about aging, dying, and value. She also takes up the issue of physician-assisted suicide as a way of ending one''s life, considering its moral permissibility and whether or not it ought to be legalized as a matter of public policy. In doing so, she examines arguments from discussions about capital punishment concerning state action and also methods of balancing costs and benefits (including cost effectiveness analysis). In her analysis, Kamm engages with the views of such prominent philosophers, medical doctors, and legal theorists as Shelly Kagan, Susan Wolf, Atul Gawande, Ezekiel Emanual, Neil Gorsuch, among others, shedding new light on conversations about the moral complexities and consequences of aging, dying, and death.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
344
ISBN-13:
9780197764107
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
019776410X
Udg. Dato:
14 dec 2023
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
235mm
Højde:
155mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato:
14 dec 2023
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