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By Margaret Pabst Battin. 344 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2005. $74 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). ISBN 0-19-514026-5 (cloth); 0-19-514027-3 (paper).

Despite the fact that the United States has millions of uninsured citizens, despite abundant evidence of unequal access to care, and despite the enormous expenditures for medical care at the end of life, assisted suicide and euthanasia are the ethical problems that have brought medical ethics to the forefront. The intellectual underpinnings of the debate about death — whether how we die is something we can control by exercising our autonomy or whether death is something that happens to us that we must simply accept — are presented in this book with clarity and passion.

Battin presents a series of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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