Battin: 13 books

Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted...

This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs. Drugs generally fall into one of seven categories: prescription, over the counter, alternative medicine, common-use drugs like alcohol, tobacco and...

"Pam Jefferies and Jim Battin provide a very thoughtful, step by step approach to create a collaborative health care simulation consortium. It is inspiring to witness many stakeholders come together in Southeast Indiana to effectively educate and train people entering the healthcare profession (and...

Be patient. Your time will come.Ex-policewoman Cori O'Connor has seen the face of evil.Once she brought the Sandman to justice — a depraved serial killer who very nearly added Cori to his long list of victims. And the maniac still invades her dreams … three years after his death.Now the killings...

This book intertwines phenomenological fieldwork with a wide range of Heidegger’s writings to explore how our everyday uses of mobile media technologies permit a unique avenue to rediscover poiēsis, our creative cultivation that is simultaneously a bringing forth, a revealing. Shining a light on...

Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted...

The right to turn one's chosen source is now well established in both law and ethics, but where children are unable to choose for themselves the situation is fraught with moral difficulties. This book highlights some of these difficulties and gives an insight into the doctrines and beliefs of Christian...

Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public...

Don't sleep, Mary. Satan's night is near. He will take you and drown you in blood-drenched sin. Mary Taylor is happy now, married to the man she loves. The years of the Christian Home for Children are behind her, buried in the dark, unspoken folds of memory. But still she awakens to terror, to the...

A WOMAN WITH TERROR IN HER HEART. A MAN WITH MURDER IN HIS SOUL.Reporter Amanda Price stood on the brink of national fame. Her TV expose of small-town corruption had galvanized New England, and was sure to boost her career.But Amanda's triumph soon turned to terror. First came the stranger with the corpse-like...

A nine-year-old boy propositions his favorite teacher, using obscenities that would make a sailor blush. A farmer discovers dozens of hacked-up chickens on his property. A baby is kidnapped and later found with its throat slashed, the clawed body of the kidnapper nearby. What is happening? The sleepy...

THE TERROR BEGINS... A bloodthirsty specter has wiped out an entire family and left a message in purple crayon: THE BOOGEYMAN WAS HERE. THE HORROR GROWS... Sheriff Melissa James must find the creature who becomes more elusive the more he kills. And tracking him down after he kidnaps her own kids is every mother's nightmare come true...

When the thaw comes to Ice Island, there is no escape from evil. Each spring, there are weeks when the island is completely cut off from the mainland. No one can arrive on the island — and no one can leave. And this year, evil has found a new home …