The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
Type
Label
The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
The law of life and death
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
676725363
Responsibility statement
Elizabeth Price Foley
Summary
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
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive
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Creator
Subject
- Right to life -- United States
- Muerte + Prueba y certificación -- Estados Unidos
- Life and death, Power over + Decision making
- Derecho a la muerte -- Estados Unidos
- Eutanasia + Legislación -- Estados Unidos
- Death Certificates
- Value of Life
- Euthanasia + Law and legislation
- Ethics, Medical
- Death
- Brain Death + legislation & jurisprudence
- Death + Proof and certification -- United States
- Death + Proof and certification
- Right to die + Law and legislation
- Right to life
- Vida y muerte, Poder sobre + Toma de decisiones
- Right to die + Law and legislation -- United States
- United States
- Euthanasia + Law and legislation -- United States
- Derecho a la vida -- Estados Unidos
- Life and death, Power over + Moral and ethical aspects
- Vida y muerte, Poder sobre + Aspectos morales y éticos
Content
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- Subject22
- Right to life -- United States
- Muerte + Prueba y certificación -- Estados Unidos
- Life and death, Power over + Decision making
- Derecho a la muerte -- Estados Unidos
- Eutanasia + Legislación -- Estados Unidos
- Death Certificates
- Value of Life
- Euthanasia + Law and legislation
- Ethics, Medical
- Death
- Brain Death + legislation & jurisprudence
- Death + Proof and certification -- United States
- Death + Proof and certification
- Right to die + Law and legislation
- Right to life
- Vida y muerte, Poder sobre + Toma de decisiones
- Right to die + Law and legislation -- United States
- United States
- Euthanasia + Law and legislation -- United States
- Derecho a la vida -- Estados Unidos
- Life and death, Power over + Moral and ethical aspects
- Vida y muerte, Poder sobre + Aspectos morales y éticos
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