Endings and Beginnings : Law, Medicine and Society in Assisted Life and Death.
Title:
Endings and Beginnings : Law, Medicine and Society in Assisted Life and Death.
Author:
Palmer, Larry.
ISBN:
9780313000447
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (160 pages)
Contents:
Preliminaries -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Science in the Service of Medicine and Law -- Chapter 2 Assisted Reproduction: Do We Need Legislative Definitions of the Family -- Chapter 3 Creating One's Own Death: Is There a Constitutional Right to Die -- Chapter 4 Chronically Ill or Terminal A Question for Legislatures -- Chapter 5 The Role of Physicians in Our Dying: Relievers of Suffering -- Chapter 6 Physicians' Constitutional Rights: Relievers of Pain -- Chapter 7 Physicians' Legislative Privileges to Assist Life or Death -- Chapter 8 Professionalism Autonomy and Medical Progress -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
As society faces the repercussions of assisted life and death, the news tells of legal battles over frozen embryos and doctors prosecuted after patients' suicide. Palmer argues society should not turn to law and science to determine such intimate matters as how our children are born and how we die.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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