Encounter Books
Darwinian fairytales; selfish genes, errors of heredity, and other fables of evolution.
While not denying Darwinian evolution, this work attacks those forms of Darwinism that seek to demonstrate Darwinian mechanisms of natural selection in current human development. He selects arguments from Darwin and his 19th century colleagues, as well as from such recent figures as Richard Dawkins and E.O. Wilson, and attempts to refute them in a series of 11 essays. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Forced exit; euthanasia, assisted suicide and the new duty to die. (reprint, 1997)
With the success of his 2002 Culture of Death, Smith revives an earlier volume (originally published in 1997) opposing deliberate self-chosen and medically-assisted death. His topics include death fundamentalism, creating a caste of disposable people, inventing the right to die, euthanasia as an enemy of the disabled, and the choice between hemlock and hospice. (Annotation ©2006 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
