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Book Review
| The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in the United States. By Shai J. Lavi. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. xii, 226 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-691-10263-5.)
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| Most scholarly discourse on euthanasia has taken place in contemporary medical, legal, and socioeconomic contexts in clinical care and/or bioethical settings. That has changed, however, with the publication of two important books: Ian Dowbiggin's Concise History of Euthanasia: Life, Death, God, and Medicine (2005) and the title here reviewed. |
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