Margaret Battin, PhD

Dr Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Medical Ethics at the University of Utah. She has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited some twenty books, including two collections on end-of-life issues, The Least Worst Death and Ending Life; and a comprehensive sourcebook, The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources. She has been named one of the “Mothers of Bioethics.”

Articles by Margaret Battin, PhD

Let’s Ask the Right Questions About Medical Aid in Dying

ByBrent Michael Kious, MD, PhD,Margaret Battin, PhD,J. Michael Bostwick, MD,Lewis M. Cohen, MD,Elizabeth Morrison MD,Thomas Strouse, MD,Stuart Youngner, MD

August 11th 2021

Some patients are intractably and maybe even irredeemably ill. What should be done for them?

A New Question in End-of-Life Ethics

ByThomas Strouse, MD,Margaret Battin, PhD,J. Michael Bostwick, MD,Lewis M. Cohen, MD,Elizabeth Morrison MD,Stuart Youngner, MD

June 11th 2021

Patients with terminal illnesses may choose to refuse treatment or even hasten their own deaths, but is that the same thing as suicide?

Margaret Battin, PhD

Articles by Margaret Battin, PhD

Let’s Ask the Right Questions About Medical Aid in Dying

A New Question in End-of-Life Ethics

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