A Merciful End

A Merciful End
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780195154436
ISBN-13 : 0195154436
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Book Synopsis A Merciful End by : Ian Robert Dowbiggin

Download or read book A Merciful End written by Ian Robert Dowbiggin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full history of the euthanasia movement in the U.S. It tells for the first time the dramatic story of those reformers who struggled throughout the twentieth century to change the nation's attidues towards mercy-killing and assisted suicide. Original, wide-ranging in scope, but sensitive to the personal dimensions of euthanasia. A Merciful End is an illuminating and cautionary account of tension between motives and methods within twenty-century social reform, providing a refreshingly new perspective on an old debate.


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