Living and Dying Well takes an informed, interdisciplinary approach to the problems, data, theory, and procedures that a just society must consider when establishing policies regarding human life and death. Leading psychologist Lewis Petrinovich expands on the controversial arguments developed in his earlier work, Human Evolution, Reproduction, and Morality, and considers such contemporary issues as: the morality of human genetic screening and of the Human Genome Project; organ transplants; the allowance of suicide and euthanasia; and physicians assisting in the dying process.

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`Each issue is addressed in an exceedlingly scholarly fashion... A plethora of well-selected empirical data and representative reviews of the philosophical and bioethics literature are provided to set the stage for the ethical and social policy arguments...This book makes a laudable effort to raise the standard of public discourse.'
Evolution and Human Behavior, 1997, 18(4)

`Interesting and timely.'
Choice, November 1996

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University of California, Riverside, USA

Lewis Petrinovich

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Book Title: Living and Dying Well
Authors: Lewis Petrinovich
Series Title: Critical Issues in Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0206-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45171-3Published: 29 February 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0208-5Published: 31 May 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0206-1Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 1572-1906
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 362
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Health Psychology, Social Policy

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