Death rites : law and ethics at the end of life / edited by Robert Lee and Derek Morgan
London ; New York : Routledge, 1996. 1st paperback edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #384775
ISBN: 0415140269
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.
Price: €14.95