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This collection of new essays aims to address some of the most perplexing issues arising from death and dying, as well as the moral status of persons and animals. Leading scholars, including Peter Singer and Gerald Dworkin, investigate diverse topics such as animal rights, vegetarianism, lethal injection, abortion and euthanasia. GERALD DWORKIN Department of Philosophy, University of California Davis, USA VICKY FRANKS Department of Philosophy, East Tennessee University, USA STAN VAN HOOFT Department of Philosophy, Deakin University, Australia JAMES LENMAN Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK BRIAN LUKE Researcher TIBOR MACHAN Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Auburn University, Alabama, USA KATE RAWLES Freelance Lecturer, UK PETER SINGER Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, USA TORBJORN TANNSJO Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden JENNIFER TEICHMAN Emeritus Fellow, New Hall, Cambridge University, UK KAI-YEE WONG Department of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China ANTHONY KWOK-WING YEUNG Department of Philosophy, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Contents Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors Introduction; H.Li PART I: Animal Rights Ethics, Animals and Nature P.Singer Rights, Liberation and Interests: Is there a Sound Case for Animal Rights or Liberation T.R.Machan Towards Quasi-vegetarianism H.Li Chapter 4: Love a Duck! Emotions, Animals and Environmental Ethics K.Rawles Men’s Hunting and the Disvalue of Natural Predation B.Luke PART II: Personhood Personhood, Humanity and the Right to Life J.Teichman Abortion and the Potential Person Argument A.K.Yeung Ensoulment, Biotechnology and Moral Worth V.Franks Chapter 9: Death and Dualism S.van Hooft PART III: The Ethics of Killing Terminal Sedation: A Swedish Case Study T.Tnnsj Euthanasia, Intentions, and the Doctrine of Killing and Letting Die K.Wong Patients and Prisoners: The Ethics of Lethal Injection G.Dworkin On Becoming Extinct J.Lenman Index
