TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Beyond abortion: the looming battle over death in the ‘culture wars’
JO  - Bioethics
A1  - Evans, James
SP  - 379
EP  - 387
VL  - 22
IS  - 7
N2  - By concentrating on abortion, the culture wars have avoided facing a crisis about the end of life. This paper explores four themes: (1) the technological transformation of birth and death into matters of decision, not matters of fact; (2) abortion as the nexus of Eros (sex) with Thanatos (death); (3) the real crisis, conveniently masked by our obsession with sex, looming at the end of life, not at its beginning; (4) the surplus-repression that protects us from assuming responsibility for choosing between life and death.<p /> 
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SN  - 0269-9702
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8519.2008.00649.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -