Death rites : law and ethics at the end of life /
Death rites : law and ethics at the end of life /
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- xvi, 308 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Against the definition of brainstem death / 'Who wants to live forever'? / Power over death: the final sting / Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes / Medical futility: CPR / ICU triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil / From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement / Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals / Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy / Disasters: the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death / Relatively late payments: damages beyond death and bereavement / Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law / Deathly silence: doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death / Martyn Evans -- Peter Alldridge -- Jonathan Montgomery -- Ruth F. Chadwick -- John Saunders -- Stuart F. Spicker -- Nicky James -- Marie Fox -- Frances Price -- Celia Wells -- Derek Morgan -- K.J.M. Smith -- Robert Lee.
The increasing capacity of medicine to save lives demands that we ask more and more questions about what death is, and why it matters. This book 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.
0415062608 (acidfree paper) 9780415062602 : No price
93006982
Right to die--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
Life and death, Power over--Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to Die--Great Britain--legislation.
Ethics, Medical.
Death Law Great Britain
179.7
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Against the definition of brainstem death / 'Who wants to live forever'? / Power over death: the final sting / Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes / Medical futility: CPR / ICU triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil / From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement / Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals / Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy / Disasters: the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death / Relatively late payments: damages beyond death and bereavement / Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law / Deathly silence: doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death / Martyn Evans -- Peter Alldridge -- Jonathan Montgomery -- Ruth F. Chadwick -- John Saunders -- Stuart F. Spicker -- Nicky James -- Marie Fox -- Frances Price -- Celia Wells -- Derek Morgan -- K.J.M. Smith -- Robert Lee.
The increasing capacity of medicine to save lives demands that we ask more and more questions about what death is, and why it matters. This book 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.
0415062608 (acidfree paper) 9780415062602 : No price
93006982
Right to die--Law and legislation--Great Britain.
Life and death, Power over--Moral and ethical aspects.
Right to Die--Great Britain--legislation.
Ethics, Medical.
Death Law Great Britain
179.7