Death Rites : Law and Ethics at the End of Life

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

Supplemental Materials

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

List of contributors
Preface: Law, ethics and death: silence and symbolism
Against the Definition of Brainstem Death	p. 1
'Who Wants to Live Forever?'	p. 11
Power Over Death: The Final Sting	p. 37
Corpses, Recycling and Therapeutic Purposes	p. 54
Medical Futility: CPR	p. 72
ICU Triage: The Ethics of Scarcity, the Ideal of Impartiality and the Inadvertent Endorsement of Evil	p. 91
From Vision to System: The Maturing of the Hospice Movement	p. 102
Animal Rights and Wrongs: Medical Ethics and the Killing of Non-Human Animals	p. 131
Tailoring Multiparity: The Dilemmas Surrounding Death by Selective Reduction of Pregnancy	p. 175
Disasters: The Role of Institutional Responses in Shaping Public Perceptions of Death	p. 196
Relatively Late Payments: Damages Beyond Death and Bereavement	p. 223
Risking Death by Dangerous Sexual Behaviour and the Criminal Law	p. 251
Deathly Silence: Doctors' Duty to Disclose Dangers of Death	p. 279
Index	p. 303
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.