Medicine and books: Who Owns Our Bodies? Making Moral Choices in Health Care

摘要

This slim but thoughtful volume is a work of scholarship. John Spiers, chairman of the Patients Association, has thought deeply about issues of life and death and moral choices in health care. The book is based on a public lecture in which he gave tentative and qualified support for voluntary euthanasia-He has added an introduction and afterword-The book is dearly written, readable, and heavily referenced to the works of philosophers and moral ethicists: many readers will find the arguments persuasive.