Material Type  

 단행본

Date and Time of Latest Transaction  

20140127111317

ISBN  

9780674060906 (electronic bk.)

ISBN  

0674060903 (electronic bk.)

ISBN  

9780674051041 (hbk.)

ISBN  

0674051041 (hbk.)

LC Callnumber  

KF3827.D4-F65 2011eb

DDC  

344.7304/19-22

Author  

Foley, Elizabeth Price.

Title/Author  

The law of life and death - [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Price Foley

Publish Info  

Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 2011

Material Info  

1 online resource (304 p)

서지주기  

Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-296) and index.

Formatted Contents Note  

완전내용Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Abstracts/Etc  

요약Synopsis: Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer-that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death. Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal rights, which explains the law's seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contraception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death. In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controversial, Foley shows how the need for more organ transplants and the need to conserve health care resources are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal definition of death. As a result, death is being declared faster than ever before. The "right to die," Foley worries, may be morphing slowly into an obligation to die. Foley's balanced, accessible chapters explore the most contentious legal issues of our time-including cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance directives-across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests, the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Death Proof and certification United States

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Life and death, Power over Moral and ethical aspects

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Life and death, Power over Decision making

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Right to life United States

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Right to die Law and legislation United States

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Euthanasia Law and legislation United States

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Brain Death legislation & jurisprudence United States

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Death United States

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Death Certificates United States

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Ethics, Medical United States

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Value of Life United States

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LAW Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

LAW / Medical Law & Legislation.

Additional Physical Form Entry  

Print versionFoley, Elizabeth Price. Law of life and death. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011 9780674051041 (DLC) 2010047701 (OCoLC)676725363

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