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Death rites : law and ethics at the end of life /

Contributor(s): Lee, R. G. (Robert Gregory), 1952- | Morgan, Derek, 1954-.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994Description: xvi, 308 p. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0415062608 (acidfree paper); 9780415062602 :.Subject(s): 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 BritainDDC classification: 179.7
Contents:
Against the definition of brainstem death / Martyn Evans -- 'Who wants to live forever'? / Peter Alldridge -- Power over death: the final sting / Jonathan Montgomery -- Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes / Ruth F. Chadwick -- Medical futility: CPR / John Saunders -- ICU triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil / Stuart F. Spicker -- From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement / Nicky James -- Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals / Marie Fox -- Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy / Frances Price -- Disasters: the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death / Celia Wells -- Relatively late payments: damages beyond death and bereavement / Derek Morgan -- Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law / K.J.M. Smith -- Deathly silence: doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death / Robert Lee.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Against the definition of brainstem death / Martyn Evans -- 'Who wants to live forever'? / Peter Alldridge -- Power over death: the final sting / Jonathan Montgomery -- Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes / Ruth F. Chadwick -- Medical futility: CPR / John Saunders -- ICU triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil / Stuart F. Spicker -- From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement / Nicky James -- Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals / Marie Fox -- Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy / Frances Price -- Disasters: the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death / Celia Wells -- Relatively late payments: damages beyond death and bereavement / Derek Morgan -- Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law / K.J.M. Smith -- Deathly silence: doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death / 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.

Edited by: Robert Lee and Derek Morgan.

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