Meanings of death

Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 11-27

  Mann, Patricia S ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (16)

1. Margaret Pabst Battin, The Least Worst Death (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), p. 190.
2. Jacques Derrida, Aporias, trans. Thomas Dutoit (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), p. 11-12, 16.
3. SeeEpicurus, "LettertoMenoeceus, "and Plato's Apology, trans. G.M.A. Grube, in Plato: Five Dialogues (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1981), line 40d.
4. Emmanuel Levinas, Time and the Other, trans. Richard Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1987), pp. 69-70.
5. Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), pp. 279, 308-309, 354.
6. Jacques Derrida, Aporias, pp. 6, 8, 62, 74.
7. Ronald Dworkin, Life's Dominion (NewYork: Random House, 1994), pp. 179-80.
8. Richard Doerflinger, "Assisted Suicide: Pro-Choice or Anti-Life?" in Joseph Howell and William Frederick Sale, eds., Life Choices: A Hastings Center Introduction to Bioethics (Georgetown: Georgetown University Press, 1995), pp. 240-48.
9. Patricia S. Mann, Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).
10. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, C. B. MacPherson, ed. (NewYork: Penguin, 1981), pp. 118-20.
11. Arlie Hochschild's The Time Bind (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1997)
12. Arthur and Joan Kleinman, "Cultural Appropriations of Suffering in Our Times, "Daedalus, vol. 125, no. l (Winter, 1996), pp. 14-15.
13. Robert Kastenbaum, "Suicide as the Preferred Way of Death, "in Edwin S. Shneidman, ed., Suicidology: Contemporary Developments (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1976), pp. 425-41, for a much earlier analysis predicting that our society would readily embrace suicide as a desirable way of dying.
14. Cheryl Mwaria, "Physician-Assisted Suicide: An Anthropological Perspective, "Fordham Urban Law journal (forthcoming). Mwaria focusses particularly on our attitudes towards the disabled, warning that existing prejudices against dependence and disability may become heightened within a culture which encourages assisted suicide.
15. Hochschild, The Time Bind.
16. Simon Critchley; Very Little... Almost Nothing: Death, Philosophy, Literature (New York: Routledge, 1997), p. 70.