The Case of Terri Schiavo ─ Ethics at the End of Life

This collection of essays, reports, newspaper articles, documents and narratives includes opinions and information from all sides of the case. Doctors describe how feeding tubes work and what roles expert opinion and community standards play in assessing permanent loss of consciousness. Records show what role previous court decisions played. Essays and news stories describe how convictions varied in local and federal courts and courts of public opinion and how religion played a role. Narratives examine what actually happened in court and in the hospice room and how people responded to Schiavo's death. We hear many voices on this controversial subject; none of them, of course, are Schiavo's. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Arthur L. Caplan, PhD (Philadelphia, PA), is the director of the Center for Bioethics and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and the author or editor of numerous books including The Ethics of Organ Transplants and Who Owns Life?
James J. McCartney, PhD (Villanova, PA), is an associate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics and an associate professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He is the coeditor with Arthur L. Caplan and Dominic Sisti of Health, Disease, & Illness: Concepts in Medicine.
Dominic A. Sisti, MBe (Philadelphia, PA), is a research associate at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Bioethics. He is the coeditor with Arthur L. Caplan and James J. McCartney of Health, Disease, & Illness: Concepts in Medicine.
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