The new vet's handbook : information and advice for veterinary graduates by Tapsfield-Wright, Clare

Table of Contents: “…Becoming a vet -- Finding the right job for you -- Preparing for work in practice -- Your first weeks in practice -- Working with large animals -- How to look good in the consulting room -- How to be a good vet in the back -- Working out of hours -- Clients: the good, the bad and the ugly -- How to get on with the rest of the veterinary team -- How to get on with other vets -- How to get on with your boss -- How to get on with yourself -- Challenges you may encounter in practice -- Being a vet in real life -- End of life care and euthanasia -- Paperwork and procedures: do it or weep! …”
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Contemporary moral problems by White, James E.

Table of Contents: “…. -- A defense of abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- On the moral and legal status of abortion / Mary Anne Warren -- An argument that abortion is wrong / Don Marquis -- The egg and I: conception, identity, and abortion / Eugene Mills -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- The intentional termination of life / Bonnie Steinbock -- Voluntary active euthanasia / Dan W. …”

Life and death decisions : psychological and ethical considerations in end-of-life care by Kleespies, Phillip M.

Table of Contents: “…The wish to die: assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia -- Chapter 5. The wish to prolong life -- Chapter 6. …”

Global bioethics : building on the Leopold legacy by Potter, Van Rensselaer, 1911-

Table of Contents: “…Dilemmas in Medical BioethicsTeenage Pregnancy; Handicapped Newborns; Organ Transplantation Euthanasia; Euthanasia; The Secular Vision; 6. The Control of Human Fertility; Two Kinds of People; The San Antonio Connection; Clinical Applications: Infertility; Nonsurgical Methods of Contraception; Contraceptive Research; Pregnancy Termination; Planned Intervention in Population Change; Fertility-Regulating Methods; Social & Religious Correlates of Fertility; 7. …”
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The final solution : origins and implementation

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Volksgemeinschaft, 'Aryanization' and the Holocaust; Euthanasia and the Final Solution; The idea of the Final Solution and the role of experts; Himmler, the architect of genocide; The relation between Operation Barbarossa as an ideological war of extermination and the Final Solution; Wehrmacht, Einsatzgruppen, Soviet POWs and anti-Bolshevism in the emergence of the Final Solution; Operation Barbarossa and the origins of the Final Solution; Hitler and the euphoria of victory: the path to the Final Solution.…”
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Bioethics : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…Boyle, Jr. -- Active and passive euthanasia / James Rachels -- Is killing no worse than letting die? …”

Suicide in Canada. by Leenaars, Antoon

Table of Contents: “…27 The Right to Die and the Right to Live: Perspectives on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide -- 28 Suicide, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Talking about ethics : a conversational approach to moral dilemmas by Jones, Michael S., 1964-, Farnham, Mark J., Saxon, David L.

Table of Contents: “…Legalizing narcotics -- 7. Abortion -- 8. Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- 9. Organ transplantation -- 10. …”
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Mental health and HIV infection : psychological and psychiatric aspects

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Contents; Figures; Tables; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; Speaking in Tongues; Psychological Problems in People with HIV Infection; HIV Disease and Its Impact on the Mental Health of Children; The Impact of HIV Infection on Partners and Relatives; Dementia Associated with HIV Infection; Suicidal Behaviour and HIV Infection; Euthanasia, Physician-Assisted Suicide and AIDS; Psychological Interventions; Psychopharmacological Treatments; Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy and HIV Risk Sexual Behaviour; Psychoneuroimmunology and HIV Infection; Notes on Contributors; Index.…”
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Chimpanzees in Research : Strategies for Their Ethical Care, Management, and Use. by Staff, National Research Council

Table of Contents: “…Housing standards and behavioral well-beinghousing models -- provisions for behavioral well-being -- special considerations -- euthanasia -- recommendations for the practice of euthanasia endorsed by the committee -- chimpanzee population subgroups: definitions and recommendations -- group a: breeding population -- group b: available for research -- group c: currently in research protocols -- group d: not needed for research or breeding -- ownership transfer -- conclusions -- 4 demography, cost, and genetic material -- demography…”
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Experience and expression : women, the Nazis, and the Holocaust

Table of Contents: “…Caring While Killing: Nursing in the "Euthanasia" Centers.…”
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Life as it is : biology for the public sphere by Loomis, William F.

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Ethics in Practice An Anthology. by LaFollette, Hugh

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Ethics in Practice: An Anthology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface for Instructors -- Acknowledgments -- Source Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Theorizing about Ethics -- Reading Philosophy -- Writing a Philosophy Paper [N] -- Part I Ethical Theory -- Ethical Theory -- 1 Consequentialism -- 2 Deontology -- 3 Rights -- 4 Virtue Theory -- Part II Life and Death -- Euthanasia -- 5 Rule-Utilitarianism and Euthanasia -- 6 Justifying Physician-Assisted Deaths -- 7 Against the Right to Die -- 8 Dying at the Right Time: Reflections on (Un)Assisted Suicide…”
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Christian ethics : the basics by Gill, Robin

Table of Contents: “…The environment -- Augustine on nature -- Aquinas on nature -- Luther on nature -- Beyond aquinas and luther -- Genesis 1.26 and creation in the tanakh -- Anthropocentrism and ecojustice -- Feminist perspectives -- An ongoing task -- Case-study 3: rapid climate change and si -- Further reading -- References -- 5. Euthanasia and abortion -- Status of life issues -- Augustine on suicide -- Case-study 4: recriminalising abortion -- Further reading…”
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Refuting Peter Singer's ethical theory : the importance of human dignity by Krantz, Susan F.

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Large animal anesthesia : principles and techniques by Riebold, T. W. (Thomas William), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Bovine anesthesia -- Small ruminant anesthesia -- Swine anesthesia -- Anesthetic emergencies -- Supportive therapy and emergency medication -- Problem oriented general anesthesia -- Postanesthetic complications -- Local and regional anesthesia -- Local anesthetic agents -- Regional anesthesia -- Epidural anesthesia -- Nerve blocks of the fore and rear limbs of the horse -- Arthrocentesis and intra-articular anesthesia in the horse -- Euthanasia -- Sources of drugs and equipment.…”

The New Farm : Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution. by Preston, Brent

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Contents; Prologue: Euthanasia for Dummies; Dear Reader; Chapter 1: Buying the Farm; Chapter 2: Baby Steps; Chapter 3: School of Hard Knocks; Chapter 4: The Groundhog Wars; Chapter 5: A World of pain; Chapter 6: The Culinary world; Chapter 7: Castration 101; Chapter 8: Learning to work; Chapter 9: Cash Cropping; Chapter 10: Los Muchachos; Chapter 11: The Stop; Chapter 12: Small is beautiful; Epilogue: Viva la Revolución!…”
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Looking Beneath the Surface : Medical Ethics from Islamic and Western Perspectives. by Vroom, Hendrik M.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION LOOKING BENEATH THE SURFACE: COMMONALITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES IN MEDICAL ETHICS; Introduction; Comparisons, Differences, and Commonalities; The Arab-Islamic Paradigm of Accountability; The Western Paradigm of Accountability; The Law, Religious Reasons, and Medical Codes; The Contributions; Genetic Research, Treatments, and Counseling; Embryos and Abortion; Organ Donation; Euthanasia, Palliative Sedation, Islamic Counseling, and the Right to Decide for Oneself.…”
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Ethical issues in modern medicine : contemporary readings in bioethics

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Moral Reasoning in the Medical Context -- Foundations of the Health Professional-Patient Relationship: -- Autonomy, Paternalism, and Medical Models -- Informed Consent and Truth-Telling -- Conflicting Professional Roles and Responsibilities -- Allocation, Social Justice, and Health Policy: -- Justice, Health, and Health Care -- Allocating Scare Resources -- Organ Transplantation: Gifts Versus Markets -- Poverty, Health, and Justice Beyond National Borders -- Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment and Euthanasia: -- Decisional Capacity and the Right to Refuse Treatment -- Advance Directives -- Choosing for Once-Competent Patients -- Choosing for Never-Competent Patients -- Physician-Assisted Death -- Life, Death, and Moral Status: -- The Significance of Death -- The Morality of Abortion -- Embryonic Stem-Cell Research -- Reproduction: -- Procreative Responsibility -- Assisted Reproduction -- Reproductive Cloning -- Experimentation on Human Subjects: -- Born in Scandal: The Origins of U.S. …”

Uncertain Bioethics : Human Dignity and Moral Risk. by Napier, Stephen

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Clinical ethics : a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine by Jonsen, Albert R.

Table of Contents: “…Indicated and nonindicated interventions-- Orders not to resuscitation (DNR) -- Legal implications of forgoing treatment -- Determination of death -- Informed consent -- Decisional capacity -- Beliefs due to religious and cultural diversity -- Truthful communication -- Competent refusal of treatment -- Advance planning -- Decision making for the mentally incapacitated patient -- The limits of patient preferences -- Failure to cooperate with medical recommendations -- Alternative medicine -- Enhancing quality of life -- Compromised quality of life and life-sustaining interventions -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Care of the dying patient -- Suicide -- Role of interested parties -- Confidentiality of medical information -- The economics of clinical care -- Allocation of scarce health resources -- Influence of religion on clinical decisions -- The role of the law in clinical decisions -- Clinical research -- Clinical teaching -- Occupational medicine -- Public health -- Ethics committees -- Ethics consultation.…”
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Contemplating Suicide : the Language and Ethics of Self-Harm. by Fairbairn, Gavin

Table of Contents: “…; OUR IMPOVERISHED LANGUAGE OF SUICIDE AND SELF HARM; SUICIDE AND INTENTION; DEFINING SUICIDE; EXTENDING THE TAXONOMY OF SUICIDAL SELF HARM; LIVING DANGEROUSLY, HEROISM AND EUTHANASIA; VARIETIES OF SUICIDE; DIGGING UP THE PAST: EXPLORATIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHICAL ARCHAEOLOGY OF SUICIDE; THE LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE POSITIONS ON SUICIDE; AUTONOMY, PATERNALISM AND INTERVENTION IN SUICIDAL ACTS.…”
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Medical ethics today : the BMAs handbook of ethics and law

Table of Contents: “…The doctor-patient relationship -- Consent, choice, and refusal : adults with capacity -- Treating adults who lack capacity -- Children and young people -- Confidentiality -- Health records -- Contraception, abortion, and birth -- Assisted reproduction -- Genetics -- Caring for patients at the end of life -- Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide -- Responsibilities after a patient's death -- Prescribing and administering medication -- Research and innovative treatment -- Emergency situations -- Doctors with dual obligations -- Providing treatment and care in detention settings -- Education and training -- Teamwork, referral, delegation, and shared care -- Public health dimensions of medical practice -- Reducing risk, clinical error, and poor performance.…”
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Farm animal anesthesia : cattle, small ruminants, camelids, and pigs by Lin, HuiChu, 1958-, Walz, Paul, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Edmondson -- Anesthetic management of special procedures / Paul Walz and Benjamin Newcomer -- Pain management for farm animals / HuiChu Lin -- Fluid therapy / Paul Walz -- Regulation and legal considerations of anesthetics and analgesics used in food producing animals / Thomas Passler -- Euthanasia of farm animals / Thomas Passler.…”
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Aid In Dying.

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Let me die

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Valuing Life. by Kleinig, John

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Understanding Law and Society. by Travers, Max

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Bugs alive : a guide to keeping Australian invertebrates by Henderson, Alan, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…; Quarantine; Diseases; Parasites; Physical injuries; Stress; Deficiencies in captivity; Emergency food; Effects of aging; Euthanasia.…”
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The missing gene : psychiatry, heredity, and the fruitless search for genes by Joseph, Jay

Table of Contents: “…-- A critique of the spectrum concept as used in the Danish-American schizophrenia adoption studies -- Pellagra and genetic research -- A generation misinformed: psychiatry and psychology textbooks' inaccurate accounts of schizophrenia adoption research -- Irving Gottesman's 1991 schizophrenia genesis: a primary scource of misinformation on the genetics of schizophrenia -- Autism and genetics: much ado about very little -- The 1942 "Euthanasia" debate in the American Journal of Psychiatry -- The twin method's Achilles' heel: a critical review of the equal environment assumption test literature -- Bipolar disorder and genetics -- Genotype or genohype? …”
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Handbook of psychiatry in palliative medicine

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Contributors -- Part I: Psychiatric Complications of Terminal Illness -- 1 Hospice: A Psychiatric Perspective -- 2 Care and Management of the Patient at the End of Life -- 3 Diagnosis and Management of Depression in Palliative Care -- 4 Suicide, Assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia in the Terminally Ill -- 5 Anxiety in Palliative Care -- 6 Delirium in the Terminally Ill -- 7 Palliative Care in the Chronically Mentally Ill -- Part II: Symptom Management -- 8 Physical Symptom Management in the Terminally Ill: An Overview for Mental Health Professionals…”
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Medical Ethics Today : Its Practice and Philosophy. by English, Veronica

Table of Contents: “…Medical Ethics Today The BMA's handbook of ethics and law; Bridging the gap between theory and practice: the BMA's approach to medical ethics; 1: The doctor-patient relationship; 2: Consent and refusal: competent adults; 3: Treatment without consent: incapacitated adults and compulsory treatment; 4: Consent and refusal: children and young people; 5: Confidentiality; 6: Health records; 7: Contraception, abortion, and birth; 8: Assisted reproduction; 9: Genetics; 10: Caring for patients at the end of life; 11: Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide.…”
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Feminism and Bioethics : Beyond Reproduction. by Wolf, Susan M.

Table of Contents: “…Gender, Feminism, and Death: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia""; ""11. Feminism, Bioethics, and Genetics""; ""12. …”
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Business Ethics. by Murthy, C. S. V.

Table of Contents: “…CHAPTER 13 : Ethics in Social Responsibility and Corporate Social ResponsibilityCHAPTER 14 : Broader Ethical Issues in Society -- Ecological Concerns; CHAPTER 15 : Discrimination on the Basis of Gender, Caste, or Race; CHAPTER 16 : Ethical Decision Making ; CHAPTER 17 : Global Business; CHAPTER 18 : Ethics and Information Technology ; CHAPTER 19 : Indianism and Indian Management; CHAPTER 20 : Ethical Dilemma; CHAPTER 21 : Euthanasia and Abortion; CHAPTER 22 : Miscellaneous Topics; CHAPTER 23 : Student's Presentation of Projects; CHAPTER 24 : Case Studies; Glossary; References; Index.…”
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Leaving : a narrative of assisted suicide by Stavrianakis, Anthony

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Taking sides. Clashing views on bioethical issues

Table of Contents: “…-- Is palliative sedation ethically different from active euthanasia? -- Should physicians be allowed to assist in patient suicide? …”

The ethical canary : science, society and the human spirit by Somerville, Margaret A.

Table of Contents: “…Dealing with death: the ethics of euthanasia -- 6. Terminating life support without consent: the ethics of withdrawing treatment -- 7. …”
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Clinical ethics a practical approach to ethical decisions in clinical medicine by Jonsen, Albert R.

Table of Contents: “…Indicated and nonindicated interventions-- Orders not to resuscitation (DNR) -- Legal implications of forgoing treatment -- Determination of death -- Informed consent -- Decisional capacity -- Beliefs due to religious and cultural diversity -- Truthful communication -- Competent refusal of treatment -- Advance planning -- Decision making for the mentally incapacitated patient -- The limits of patient preferences -- Failure to cooperate with medical recommendations -- Alternative medicine -- Enhancing quality of life -- Compromised quality of life and life-sustaining interventions -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide -- Care of the dying patient -- Suicide -- Role of interested parties -- Confidentiality of medical information -- The economics of clinical care -- Allocation of scarce health resources -- Influence of religion on clinical decisions -- The role of the law in clinical decisions -- Clinical research -- Clinical teaching -- Occupational medicine -- Public health -- Ethics committees -- Ethics consultation.…”
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Animal research in a global environment : meeting the challenges : proceedings of the November 2008 international workshop

Table of Contents: “…Plenary lecture: science and technology and US Foreign Policy / Norman Neureiter -- Introductory lecture : building momentum: lessons learned from the 2003 ILAR International Conference / Hilton Klein -- Challenges and opportunities for harmonization -- Perspectives from international organizations -- Global issues: working across different standards -- Training and education -- Plenary lecture : animal research in a global environment: meeting the challenges / John Baldoni -- Veterinary care for laboratory animals -- Standards of veterinary care for laboratory animals -- State of laboratory animal medicine around the world -- A path forward -- International approaches and principles for distress, pain, and euthanasia -- International approaches and principles for humane endpoints -- Coordination of international rodent resources -- International coordination of nonhuman primates -- Framing the issues -- Supply and use of NHP around the world -- Challenges in outsourcing studies.…”
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Bioscience Ethics. by Pollard, Irina

Table of Contents: “…7 The state of wellbeing: basic principles, coping strategies and individual mastery8 The state of wellbeing: on the end-of-life care and euthanasia; 9 Current reproductive technologies: achievements and desired goals; 10 The recombinant DNA technologies; 11 Stem cells, nuclear transfer and cloning technology; 12 Human-dominated ecosystems: re-evaluating environmental priorities; 13 Human-dominated ecosystems: reclaimin.…”
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