Search Results - "assisted suicide"

Studies in law, politics, and society.

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Table of Contents: “…Jones, Anna-Maria Marshall -- Decolonizing the law : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa / Ashley Currier -- Social movements and the state's construction of identity : the case of Muslims in France / Jennifer Fredette -- Rejecting rights : the disability critique of physician assisted suicide / Katharina Heyer -- Social movements lashing back : law, social change and intra-social movement backlash in Canada / Lisa Vanhala -- Protest arrests and future protest participation : the 2004 Republican National Convention arrestees and the effects of repression / Jennifer Earl -- Convincing elites, controlling elites / Douglas NeJaime -- After 9/11 : Guantánamo and the mobilization of lawyers / Devyani Prabhat.…”
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Postmodern malpractice a medical case study in the culture war / by Clements, Colleen D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: the Trojan horse of bioethics -- What really assassinated Hippocrates -- Bioethics in historical and philosophical context -- The postmodern environment of bioethics -- Human reproductive medicine: freedom or regulation -- Infectious diseases: ethics, experts and policy in AIDS, vCJD, Ebola virus, West Nile virus -- Abortion: human worth, the end of ethics and political entitlement -- Politicizing brain death, treatment refusal, physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, treatment rationing -- Health belief model and health delivery systems -- Alternative medicine, new age, classic shaman systems -- Behavioral myth, psychiatric abuse, and social manipulation -- Are patients better off than they were before the sixties: a second opinion and analysis of bioethics -- Resisting the total society, and a new model for ethics.…”
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