Margaret P Battin

Biographic Data

ID3893043
NAMEMargaret P Battin
GIVEN NAMESMargaret P
FAMILY NAMEBattin
SIGNATUREBATTIN M P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Utah
ORCID0000-0002-0929-5357
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS23
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR22
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX1

  • Ending One's Life in Advance

    Open AccessMargaret P Battin, Brent M KiousARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2021

    If you developed Alzheimer disease, would you want to go all the way to the end of what might be a decade‐long course? Some would; some wouldn't. Options open to those who choose to die sooner are often inadequate. Do‐not‐resuscitate orders and advance directives depend on others' cooperation. Preemptive suicide may mean giving up years of life one would count as good. Do‐it‐yourself methods can fail. What we now ask of family and clinicians cari…

  • Physician Assisted Suicide

    Margaret P Battin, Rosamond Rhodes et al.EDITORBOOKPhysician Assisted Suicide2015

  • Thinking All Wrong about How You Die

    Open AccessMargaret P BattinARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report2015

    How do we approach our deaths? By avoidance, for one thing—death, especially our own death, is hard to talk about, think about, even imagine in the dimmest way. Or we dwell on it, that black, feared vortex that will eventually engulf us, swallowing our identity and personhood. Mostly, we distract ourselves with things of the moment. But in our rational moments we make preparations. We write advance directives. We execute durable powers of attorne…

  • Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the silence

    Shi Xianduan, Margaret P BattinARTICLEInternational Journal of Feminist…2008

  • Behind the silence

    Shi Xianduan, Margaret P BattinARTICLEInternational Journal of Feminist…2008

    Nie Jing-Bao, Behind the silence: Chinese voices on abortion, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, reviewed by Shi Xianduan and Margaret P. Battin

  • Drugs and Justice

    Margaret P Battin, Erik Luna et al.BOOKDrugs and Justice2007

  • Should Rapid Tests for Hiv Infection Now Be Mandatory During Pregnancy? Global Differences in Scarcity and a Dilemma of Technological Advance

    Open AccessCHARLES B SMITH, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2007

    Since testing for HIV infection became possible in 1985, testing of pregnant women has been conducted primarily on a voluntary, ‘opt‐in’ basis. Faden, Geller and Powers, Bayer, Wilfert, and McKenna, among others, have suggested that with the development of more reliable testing and more effective therapy to reduce maternal‐fetal transmission, testing should become either routine with ‘opt‐out’ provisions or mandatory. We ask, in the light of the …

  • Are there Characteristics of Infectious Diseases that Raise Special Ethical Issues? 1

    Open AccessCHARLES B SMITH, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEDeveloping World Bioethics2004

    This paper examines the characteristics of infectious diseases that raise special medical and social ethical issues, and explores ways of integrating both current bioethical and classical public health ethics concerns. Many of the ethical issues raised by infectious diseases are related to these diseases’ powerful ability to engender fear in individuals and panic in populations. We address the association of some infectious diseases with high mor…

  • Physician-Assisted Suicide

    Henry J Bourguignon, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Law and Religion1998

    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 suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate

  • Author's reply

    Margaret P BattinARTICLEReproductive Health Matters1996

  • Adolescent pregnancy - when it's a problem, what's the solution

    Margaret P BattinARTICLEReproductive Health Matters1996References: 1

    Adolescent pregnancy is currently considered by mainstream thinkers in the problem, both because it tends to increase the birth rate and the maternal mortality and morbidity rate, and because it creates disadvantages for young women themselves. An editorial by Margaret P Battin that appeared last year in Social Science and Medicine proposes a controversial contraceptive solution; it is excerpted below. Responses from both adolescent and older wom…

  • Christian Science's Right to Refuse

    Richard T DeGeorge, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1995

  • The Least Worst Death

    Brenda Almond, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1995

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics on the End of Life. By Margaret Pabst Battin.(Oxford UP, 1994. Pp. 305. Price £30.00 h / b , £14.95 p/b.) Brenda Almond Brenda Almond University of Hull Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 45, Issue 181, October 1995, Pages 545–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220329 Published: 01 October 1995

  • Health Insurance in Practice

    Open AccessJoseph White, William A Glaser et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…1993Cited by: 1

  • Assisted Suicide

    Margaret P BattinARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1992

    What practical lessons, then, does this closer examination of\nassisted-suicide practices in contemporary Germany teach us about the United\nStates, and particularly about the kinds of practices the U.S. should or\nshould not legally recognize, morally recognize, or otherwise adopt? The\ncentral issue, it seems to me, has to do with the role of the\nphysician

  • The Best of the Baroque

    Margaret P Battin, Norman DanielsARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1990

  • Age Rationing and the Just Distribution of Health Care

    Margaret P BattinARTICLEEthics1987

    The author analyzes the argument that a policy involving distributive justice in the allocation of scarce health care resources, based on the strategy of rational self interest maximation under a veil of ignorance (Rawls/Daniels), would result in an age rationing system of voluntary, socially encouraged, direct termination of the lives of the elderly rather than their medical abandonment. She maintains that such a policy would be a fair response …

  • Questioning Ethics Questions on Tests

    Margaret P Battin, Arthur SchatzkinARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1984

  • The Least Worst Death

    Margaret P BattinARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1983

    The realities of "natural" death and the alternative of a least worst\ndeath are explored in this article about the dilemmas faced by terminally ill\npatients and their doctors. Treatment refusal, the only legally sanctioned\nmeans of avoiding medically-prolonged death, may lead to distressing physical\nconditions that destroy patients' hopes for a dignified death. By functioning\nas strategists of natural death, however, physicians could help pa…

  • Ethical Issues in Suicide

    S E Marshall, Margaret P BattinARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1983

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Ethical Issues in Suicide. By M. Pabst Battin. (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1982. Pp. 196.) S. E. Marshall S. E. Marshall University of Stirling Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 132, July 1983, Pages 308–309, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219232 Published: 01 July 1983

  • Case Studies

    Kevin M Mcintyre, Robert C Benfari et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1982

    A hypothetical case is presented in which the sole cardiac-arrest team on duty must decide which of two patients to resuscitate. One, an institutionalized, severely retarded adult, has survived two earlier attacks which have left him permanently physically disabled. The second is a married businessman recuperating from a mild stroke. The decision to treat is made on a "first come, first served" basis, but both men die. The authors comment on the …

  • The Illusion of 'Rational' Suicide

    David Peretz, Margaret P Battin et al.ARTICLEThe Hastings Center Report1981

    M e Pabst Battin and David J. Mayo, editors of Suicide: The Philosophical Issues, believe that the philosophical issues in suicide are now rapidly resurfacing after nearly a century of eclipse by scientific study, in main medical and sociological. Students of latter disciplines came to see suicide a symptom-both of individual psychopathology and social disorganization. Battin and Mayo suggest that now the questions of what counts as suicide, whet…

  • Organic Unity in Ancient and Later Poetics

    Margaret P Battin, G N Giordano OrsiniARTICLEJournal of Aesthetics and Art…1976