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024 7 _a10.4159/harvard.9780674060906
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674060906
035 _a(DE-B1597)178223
035 _a(OCoLC)956656264
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050 4 _aKF3827.D4
072 7 _aLAW099000
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082 0 4 _a344.7304/19
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFoley, Elizabeth Price
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Law of Life and Death /
_cElizabeth Price Foley.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2011]
264 4 _c©2011
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1. Statutory and Common Law Life --
_t2. Constitutional Life --
_t3. Cardiopulmonary Death --
_t4. Brain Death --
_t5. Constitutional Death --
_t6. Not Dead Yet --
_t7. Unbeing Dead Isn't Being Alive --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aAre you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer-that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal rights, which explains the law's seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contraception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death.In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controversial, Foley shows how the need for more organ transplants and the need to conserve health care resources are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal definition of death. As a result, death is being declared faster than ever before. The ";right to die,"; Foley worries, may be morphing slowly into an obligation to die.Foley's balanced, accessible chapters explore the most contentious legal issues of our time-including cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance directives-across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests, the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
650 0 _aDeath
_xProof and certification
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEuthanasia
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aLife and death, Power over
_xDecision making.
650 0 _aLife and death, Power over
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 _aRight to die
_xLaw and legislation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aRight to life
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aLAW / Science & Technology.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674060906?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674060906
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999 _c190178
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