Deconstructing dignity : a critique of the right-to-die debate / Scott Cutler Shershow.
By: Shershow, Scott Cutler [author.].
ISBN: 022608812X (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226088129 (cloth : alkaline paper).Subject(s): Dignity | Right to dieGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 179.7Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | R726 .S54 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000003316 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
Preface: the sacred part -- Methodological introduction: a strategy and protocol of deconstruction -- Dignity and sanctity -- Dignity and sovereignty -- Human dignity from Cicero to Kant -- The right to die: mapping a contemporary debate -- Suicide and sacrifice from Plato to Kant -- Sacrifice and the right to die -- A debate deconstructed.