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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry I Palmer |
| ISBN: | 027596681X 9780275966812 |
| OCLC Number: | 42692257 |
| Description: | xviii, 143 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Role of Law in Our Intimate Lives -- Science in the Service of Medicine and Law -- Assisted Reproduction: Do We Need Legislative Definitions of the Family? -- Creating One's Own Death: Is There a Constitutional Right to Die? -- Chronically Ill or Terminal? A Question for Legislatures -- The Role of Physicians in Generational Continuity -- The Role of Physicians in Our Dying: Relievers of "Suffering"? -- Physicians' Constitutional Rights: Relievers of "Pain"? -- Physicians' Legislative Privileges to Assist Life or Death -- Professionalism, Autonomy, and Medical Progress. |
| Responsibility: | Larry I. Palmer. |
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"Larry Palmer forces us to think in new ways about how law and medicine intersect at the beginning and end of life. He shows that decisions for newborns and people with terminal illnesses must not be permitted to rest solely on either medical judgement or legal imperatives, that they inevitably -- and rightly - entail religious convictions, individual values, and family circumstances. Endings and Beginnings is an important and provocative book."-Daniel J. Kevles Professor of The Humanities California Institute of Technology author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Physicists: the History of A Scientific Community in Modern America, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character Read more...
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- Right to die -- United States.
- Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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- Euthanasia -- United States.
- Human reproductive technology.
- Terminal care.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- legislation and jurisprudence -- United States.
- Right to Die -- legislation and jurisprudence -- United States.
- Suicide, Assisted -- legislation and jurisprudence -- United States.
- Abortion, Legal -- legislation & jurisprudence -- United States.
- Jurisprudence -- United States.
- Physician's Role -- United States.
