ABSTRACT
Margaret P. Battin is a distinguished professor of philosophy and an adjunct professor of internal medicine at the University of Utah. Battin is the author of Ethical Issues in Suicide (1982, 1995), and Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die (2005), and is coauthor of Praying for a Cure: When Medical and Religious Practices Conflict (1999), Drugs and Justice: Seeking a Consistent, Coherent, Comprehensive View (2008), and The Patient as Victim and Vector: Ethics and Infectious Disease (2009). Her edited volumes include The Ethics of Suicide: Historical Sources (2015).
