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Rethinking Life and Death - 2nd Edition by Peter Singer (Paperback)

Rethinking Life and Death - 2nd Edition by  Peter Singer (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Can killing an embryo for genetic reasons be justified? How long should we prolong the lives of people in vegetative states? Does a person who is clinically brain dead still have legal rights? In this 1995 Australian National Book Award winner, philosopher Peter Singer explores these and other questions in a major reexamination of the meaning of life and death--under the spotlight of 21st-century technology.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The new commandments according to <i>Rethinking Life and Death</i>. <br>--If you must take human life, take responsibility for the consequences of your decisions.<br>--All human life is not of equal worth; treat beings in accordance to the ethical situation at hand.<br>--Respect a person's desire to live or die.<br>A profound and provocative work, <i>Rethinking Life and Death</i>, in the tradition of Aldous Huxley's <i>Brave New World</i>, examines the ethical dilemmas that confront us as we near the twenty-first century.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Peter Singer . . . has probably has a larger popular readership than any professional philosopher since Bertrand Russell, and more success in effecting changes in acceptable behavior." --<i>The New England Journal of Medicine</i> <p/>"Singer convincingly argues that [our traditional Western] definition [of death] is inadequate . . . he challenges the disjunction between our willingness to tolerate withdrawing means to sustain life and our rejection of measures . . . that would actively end it." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Far from pointing a way out of today's moral dilemmas, Singer's book is a road map for driving down the darkest of moral blind alleys . . . Read it to remind yourself of the enormities of which putatively civilized beings are capable." --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Peter Singer</b> teaches at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. One of founding fathers of the Animal Rights Movement, he is the author of the bestselling <i>Animal Liberation</i>.</p>

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