RETHINKING LIFE AND DEATH BY PETER SINGER

RETHINKING LIFE AND DEATH BY PETER SINGER

Publisher's note:

Our traditional ways of thinking about life and death are collapsing. In a world of respirators and embryos stored for years in liquid nitrogen, we can no longer take the sanctity of human life a th cornerstone of our ethical outlook.

In this controversial book Peter Singer argues that we cannot deal with the crucial issues of the definition of death, abortion, euthanasia and the rights of nonhuman animals unless we sweep away the old ethic and build something new in its place.

Singer outlines a new set of commandments, based on compassion and commonsense, for the decisions everyone must take about life and death.

Author: PETER SINGER is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University, and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne. He specializes in practical ethics, approaching ethical issues from a preference utilitarian perspective.