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A victim of the Hillsborough Disaster in 1989, Anthony Bland lay in hospital in a coma being fed liquid food by a pump, via a tube passing through his nose and into his stomach. On 4 February 1993 Britain's highest court ruled that doctors attending him could lawfully act to end his life. Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life as the cornerstone of our ethical outlook. In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place. Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must make about life and death.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Rethinking Life and Death
• Subtitle: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics
• Author: Peter Singer
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• EAN: 9780192861849
• ISBN: 0192861840
• ID: 04860984
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 294 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 140 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. September 1995

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