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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. |
Abstract:
"Using an "institutional" approach as an alternative to the prevailing "rights"-based analysis of problems in law and medicine, this study explains why society should resist the tendency to look to science and law for a resolution of intimate matters, such as how our children are born and how we die. Palmer's institutional approach demonstrates that legislative analysis is often more important than judicial analysis when it comes to issues raised by new reproductive technologies and physician-assisted suicide."--BOOK JACKET.
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