Deconstructing dignity: a critique of the right-to-die debate - 46502

The right-to-die debate has gone on for centuries, playing out most recently as a spectacle of protest surrounding figures such as Terry Schiavo.

In this book, Scott Cutler Shershow offers a powerful new way of thinking about it philosophically.

Focusing on the concepts of human dignity and the sanctity of life, he employs Derridean deconstruction to uncover self-contradictory and damaging assumptions that underlie both sides of the debate.