1st Edition

A Right to Die?: Teachers Guide

    A 96 page guide to the background, program, uses for and contact time needed with the CD-ROM A Right to Die? The Dax Cowart Case. This guide is supplied free with every multi-user copy of the CD-ROM, and will prove invaluable for all those planning to use the program in a classroom setting. This guide is not available to purchase separately.

    Introduction, A Rationale for this Interactive Multimedia Case Study, A Sample Pedagogical Tour for Teachers, Strategies for Use, An Overview of the Program for Users, A Narrative Version of Dax’s Case, Further Annotated Resources, Select Bibliography

    Biography

    The authors are based at Carnegie Mellon University. Robert Cavalier is Senior Researcher, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, and member of the Department of Philosophy, where he teaches courses in ethics. He was co-principal of the videodisc version of A Right to Die?, which was 1989 EDUCOM award winner for Best Humanities Software. Preston K.Covey is Director, Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics, which he founded in 1988, and is Associate Professor of Philosophy. Preston seeks personal and professional engagement with ethical controversies in “real world” settings, and serves on Carnegie Mellon’s Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research.