Dying and Death in Law and Medicine

A Forensic Primer for Health and Legal Professionals

Arthur S. Berger (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

1992
Praeger Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-275-93928-1 (ISBN)

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While health professionals may be adequately informed about the legal aspects of many specialized areas of medicine and nursing, they may not totally understand the law applicable to cases of dying patients, or even the legal definition of death itself. In the wake of advances in medical technology, recent court decisions on the right to die, the enactment of natural death and brain death statutes, advance directives and living wills, and growing use of organ transplantation, there has been widespread concern about the legal and ethical issues surrounding these subjects. This book, written by a lawyer-thanatologist, will satisfy these needs. It is the first work to bring together case and statutory law applicable to dying patients, the right to die, advance directives, brain death, and organ transplantation, thus formulating a law of dying and death.

It is also unique as a self-help law finder. Although occasions that require consultation with a lawyer will arise, this work gives health professionals practical guidance on where and how to find legal materials on these issues. This book should also prove immensely useful in summarizing the law concerning dying and death for professional legal counsel. Medical decisions and issues that once were the sole province of doctors, hospitals, patients, and families have become matters of increasing judicial and legislative attention.

ARTHUR S. BERGER is Director of the International Institute for the Study of Death, President of the Survival Research Foundation, member of the Broward General Medical Center Bioethics Committee, and Vice -President of Cross-Cultural Affairs of the Foundation of Thantology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest and Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, he is the co-editor of To Die or Not to Die? Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death (Praeger, 1990), and Perspectives on Death and Dying (1989). He is also the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology, selected by Choice for its outstanding academic list, and the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research (1991).

Preface Medical Foreword by David V. Schapira Legal Foreword by Hon. Raphael Steinhardt Death: Issues and Law Death Comes Alive The Dying Patient The Dying Patient: Nothing But the Truth The Dying Patient: On the Deathbed Right to Die Right to Die: Meanings and Strategy Playing God: The Issues The Last Resort Competence and Incompetence Advance Directives Advance Directives and Death with Dignity Determination of Death Defining Death Anatomical Gifts The Gift of Life: Law and Ethics Law: Forms and Sources Law Forms, Systems and Procedures Sources of Law: How to Look Them Up Appendices Death-Related Statutes and Common Law Doctrines Guide to the Law Library Table of Cases Selected Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.1992
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-275-93928-6 / 0275939286
ISBN-13	978-0-275-93928-1 / 9780275939281
Zustand	Neuware