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050 00 $aR726$b.F45 1998
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100 1 $aFilene, Peter G.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81026856
245 10 $aIn the arms of others :$ba cultural history of the right-to-die in America /$cPeter G. Filene.
260 $aChicago :$bI.R. Dee,$c1998.
300 $axvii, 282 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-274) and index.
505 00 $tPrologue: A Good Death --$g1.$tDeath on Trial --$g2.$tModern Dying --$g3.$tThe Subjectivity of Dying --$g4.$tThe Politics of Dying --$g5.$tDying on One's Own --$g6.$tA Tapestry of Relatedness --$g7.$tSuicide with Assistance --$g8.$tCultures of Dying.
520 $aMr. Filene takes the reader into the lives and feelings of people who have struggled with the predicament of modern dying. By personalizing this social and cultural issue, he illuminates the difficult and often harsh decisions involved.
520 8 $aBeginning with the nineteenth-century background and the rise of medical technology, Mr. Filene moves quickly to the landmark case of Karen Ann Quinlan, who became in the 1970s the macabre protagonist of a melodrama that crystallized the nation's consciousness and produced a legal benchmark. In navigating the maze of bioethical arguments surrounding this and succeeding cases, the author guides readers through complex questions with remarkable lucidity.
520 8 $aUltimately, Mr. Filene argues, we must acknowledge that traditional American self-determination is not sufficient to resolve terrible questions of life and death. He suggests, first, that terminal patients must have greater access to "reassurance or morphine": and second, that we can finally exercise our autonomy only with the help of others.
650 0 $aDeath.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85036085
650 0 $aEuthanasia$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 2 $aDeath.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003643
650 2 $aEuthanasia$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005065Q000266
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
852 00 $boff,hsl$hR726$i.F45 1998