Ethics at the edges of life : medical and legal intersections : the Bampton lectures in America / Paul Ramsey.

New Haven (CT) : Yale Univ Pr, 1978.

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Medical ethics -- United States.

Medical care -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Christian ethics.

1. The Supreme Court's bicentennial abortion decision: can the 1973 abortion decisions be justly hedged?

2. Abortion after the law: conscience and its problems

3. The Edelin case

Part two: The Last of life :

4. "Ethanasia" and dying well enough

5. The Benign neglect of defective infants

6. An Ingathering of other reasons for neonatal infanticide

7. In the matter of Quinlan

8. The Strange case of Joseph Saikewicz

9. The California Natural Death Act.

Includes index.

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xvii, 353 p.