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Book Synopsis Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying by : Norman L. Cantor
Download or read book Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying written by Norman L. Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying by : Norman L. Cantor
Download or read book Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying written by Norman L. Cantor and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Regulating the End of Life by : Sue Westwood
Download or read book Regulating the End of Life written by Sue Westwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in the field. Providing an overview of current regulation on assisted dying and euthanasia, both in the UK and internationally, this book also addresses the associated debates on ethical, moral, and rights issues. It considers whether, just as there is a right to life, there should also be a right to death, especially in the context of unbearable human suffering. The unintended consequences of prohibitions on assisted dying and euthanasia are explored, and the argument put forward that knowing one can choose when and how one dies can be life-extending, rather than life-limiting. Key critiques from feminist and disability studies are addressed. The overarching theme of the collection is that death is an embodied right which we should be entitled to exercise, with appropriate safeguards, as and when we choose. Making a novel contribution to the debate on assisted dying, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to those with relevant interests in law, socio-legal studies, applied ethics, medical ethics, politics, philosophy, and sociology.
Download or read book Letting Go written by Melvin I. Urofsky and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we define our right to die is the result of a complex negotiation between personal autonomy and public control, founded on many of the same concepts that underpin Roe v. Wade. From beginning to end, the lives of all Americans are in the hands of the courts, and historian Melvin I. Urofsky informs us about what we can expect from those courts and how we can ensure for ourselves the right to make the most fundamental decisions about the quality of our lives. Urofsky maps out the legal debate surrounding the "right to die" in an authoritative discussion of the compelling issues of personal autonomy, privacy, and the First Amendment. Drawing upon precedents from celebrated court cases such as Nancy Cruzan and Karen Ann Quinlan, Urofsky then clarifies the ethical ambiguities in personal terms with which everyone can identify. He confronts the problems posed by living wills, the withdrawal of life support systems, and the pros and cons of a rational person's choosing the option of suicide. As modern medicine prolongs life beyond all previous limits, how we die is perhaps the greatest moral and legal dilemma we face. Letting Go is for anybody concerned with how America conceives the rights of the individual in the late twentieth century, as well as those facing painful, personal decisions of life and death.
Download or read book The Right to Die written by Alan Meisel and published by Wolters Kluwer. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 2023 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Right to Die, Third Edition analyzes the statutory and case law
Book Synopsis Dying and Death in Law and Medicine by : Arthur S. Berger
Download or read book Dying and Death in Law and Medicine written by Arthur S. Berger and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While health professionals may be adequately informed about the legal aspects of many specialized areas of medicine and nursing, they may not totally understand the law applicable to cases of dying patients, or even the legal definition of death itself. In the wake of advances in medical technology, recent court decisions on the right to die, the enactment of natural death and brain death statutes, advance directives and living wills, and growing use of organ transplantation, there has been widespread concern about the legal and ethical issues surrounding these subjects. This book, written by a lawyer-thanatologist, will satisfy these needs. It is the first work to bring together case and statutory law applicable to dying patients, the right to die, advance directives, brain death, and organ transplantation, thus formulating a law of dying and death. It is also unique as a self-help law finder. Although occasions that require consultation with a lawyer will arise, this work gives health professionals practical guidance on where and how to find legal materials on these issues. This book should also prove immensely useful in summarizing the law concerning dying and death for professional legal counsel. Medical decisions and issues that once were the sole province of doctors, hospitals, patients, and families have become matters of increasing judicial and legislative attention.
Book Synopsis Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity by : Norman L. Cantor
Download or read book Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity written by Norman L. Cantor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Cantor provides] both a cogent and provocative text and prodigious references." -- The New England Journal of Medicine "Cantor develops a careful and accessible ethic of autonomy and dignity regarding forgoing life-prolonging medical treatment... " -- Ethics "A thoughtful, informative and sensitive text... " -- European Medical Journal "Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives... detailed, exhaustively referenced... " -- The Florida Bar Journal "This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care." -- Doody's Health Sciences Book Review Journal "Cantor provides a very thorough, reliable, and readable guide... " -- Robert M. Veatch, Director, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives -- those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent.
Download or read book Limits written by Roger B. Dworkin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians." -- Choice "Dworkin's provocative arguments... will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances." -- New England Journal of Medicine "Important and refreshing. Dworkin's conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many.... When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake." -- Walter Wadlington The ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. Rogert Dworkin argues that resort to law often overlooks the limitations of legal institutions, and he suggests a more limited use of the legal system will produce more effective resolution of bioethical dilemmas.
Download or read book Dying with Dignity written by Giza Lopes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically and abroad. Should terminally ill adults be allowed to kill themselves with their physician's assistance? While a few American states—as well as Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and Luxembourg—have answered "yes," in the vast majority of the United States, assisted death remains illegal. This book provides a historical and comparative perspective that not only frames contemporary debates about assisted death and deepens readers' understanding of the issues at stake, but also enables realistic predictions for the likelihood of the future diffusion of legalization to more countries or states—the consequences of which are vast. Spanning a period from 1906 to the present day, Dying with Dignity: A Legal Approach to Assisted Death examines how and why pleas for legalization of "euthanasia" made at the beginning of the 20th century were transmuted into the physician-assisted suicide laws in existence today, in the United States as well as around the world. After an introductory section that discusses the phenomenon of "medicalization" of death, author Giza Lopes, PhD, covers the history of the legal development of "aid-in-dying" in the United States, focusing on case studies from the late 1900s to today, then addresses assisted death in select European nations. The concluding section discusses what the past legal developments and decisions could portend for the future of assisted death.
Book Synopsis The Law of Life and Death by : Elizabeth Price Foley
Download or read book The Law of Life and Death written by Elizabeth Price Foley and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you alive? Most people believe this question has a clear answer - that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Death and Dying by : Clifton D. Bryant
Download or read book Handbook of Death and Dying written by Clifton D. Bryant and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dying is a social as well as physiological phenomenon. Each society characterizes and, consequently, treats death and dying in its own individual ways—ways that differ markedly. These particular patterns of death and dying engender modal cultural responses, and such institutionalized behavior has familiar, economical, educational, religious, and political implications. The Handbook of Death and Dying takes stock of the vast literature in the field of thanatology, arranging and synthesizing what has been an unwieldy body of knowledge into a concise, yet comprehensive reference work. This two-volume handbook will provide direction and momentum to the study of death-related behavior for many years to come. Key Features More than 100 contributors representing authoritative expertise in a diverse array of disciplines Anthropology Family Studies History Law Medicine Mortuary Science Philosophy Psychology Social work Sociology Theology A distinguished editorial board of leading scholars and researchers in the field More than 100 definitive essays covering almost every dimension of death-related behavior Comprehensive and inclusive, exploring concepts and social patterns within the larger topical concern Journal article length essays that address topics with appropriate detail Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural coverage
Book Synopsis Death & Dying; Legal and Ethical Reviews by : Kalman Dubov
Download or read book Death & Dying; Legal and Ethical Reviews written by Kalman Dubov and published by Kalman Dubov. This book was released on 2021-11-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death and dying, especially in the midst of a global pandemic, is a timely subject. As medical science advances, technology can continue the physiologic life of the patient with profound questions regarding the patient's dignity and value-driven life. A patient in a persistent vegetative state must have completed legal documents to permit caregivers to terminate life. This review covers the United States Supreme Court case concerning Nancy Beth Cruzan and the legal entanglements associated with end of life care. I review the case, the majority, concurring and dissenting opinions. I then review the legal documents necessary for end-of-life care together with a Jewish view relevant to such care. I also include a personal view of this important topic. In addition, I include sample documents that may be of use to a person considering an advance directive, the disposition of remains and related documents. These documents are only valid when the person has prepared, signed, and notarized them before death. Health care professionals and courts will not create these documents after death. It was this scenario that was faced with Nancy Beth Cruzan, and a person considering the legal ramifications of dying without such documents can review and make use of the review and decide how to proceed.
Download or read book Death/dying written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assisted Dying written by Sheila McLean and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a leading thinker in the field, this book provides readers with an in-depth critique of the arguments for and against legislation.
Book Synopsis The Black Stork by : Martin S. Pernick
Download or read book The Black Stork written by Martin S. Pernick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1910s Dr. Harry J. Haiselden, a prominent Chicago surgeon, electrified the nation by allowing the deaths of at least six infants he diagnosed as "defectives". He displayed the dying infants to journalists, wrote about them for the Hearst newspapers, and starred in a feature film about his crusade. Prominent Americans from Clarence Darrow to Helen Keller rallied to his support. Martin Pernick tells this captivating story--uncovering forgotten sources and long-lost motion pictures--in order to show how efforts to improve human heredity (eugenics) became linked with mercy killing, as well as with race, class, gender and ethnicity. It documents the impact of cultural values on science along with the way scientific claims of objectivity shape modern culture. While focused on early 20th century America, The Black Stork traces these issues from antiquity to the rise of Nazism, and to the "Baby Doe", "assisted suicide" and human genome initiative debates of today.
Book Synopsis Pain, Death, and the Law by : Austin Sarat
Download or read book Pain, Death, and the Law written by Austin Sarat and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts. The empirical focus of these essays enables the reader to delve into both the history and the theoretical complexities of the pain-death-law relationship. The combination of the theoretical and the empirical broadens the contribution this volume will undoubtedly make to debates in which the right to live or die is the core issue at hand. This volume will be an important read for policy makers and legal practitioners and a valuable text for courses in law, the social sciences, and the humanities. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College.
Book Synopsis Last Rights by : Robert Joseph Connelly
Download or read book Last Rights written by Robert Joseph Connelly and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: