This series of studies on law, ethics and medicine contributes to the debate on when and how it is permissable to terminate life, to warn of death, and to deal with tragedy in its aftermath. The essays are wide-ranging, provocative and timely.
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Robert Lee, Derek Morgan
This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal management of death. Each chapter throws up new and unusual problems in this area, highlighting the tension between personal autonomy and medical responsibility. The book thus charts a way through the moral minefield.
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1st paperback edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 308 pp. Contents; Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Against the definition of brainstem death; 2 'Who wants to live forever?'; 3 Power over death: the final sting; 4 Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes; 5 Medical futility: CPR; 6 ICU Triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil; 7 From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement; 8 Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals; 9 Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy10 Disasters: the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death; 11 Relatively late payments: damages beyond death and bereavement; 12 Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law; 13 Deathly silence: doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death; Index. Subjects; Right to die Law and legislation Great Britain. Life and death, Power over Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Attitude to Death. Terminal Care legislation & jurisprudence. Rationing. Philosophy. 3 Kg. Artikel-Nr. 384775
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Zustand: New. This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal handling of death. It highlights the tension between personal autonomy and medical responsibility. Editor(s): Lee, Robert G.; Morgan, Derek. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ; LBG; MBDC; MBQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 440. . 1996. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Artikel-Nr. V9780415140263
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