The Resource The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
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The item The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
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- Summary
- Synopsis: Are 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Contents
-
- Statutory and common law life
- Constitutional life
- Cardiopulmonary death
- Brain death
- Constitutional death
- Not dead yet
- Unbeing dead isn't being alive
- Isbn
- 9780674060906
- Label
- The law of life and death
- Title
- The law of life and death
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Price Foley
- Subject
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- Brain Death -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Death
- Death -- Proof and certification
- Death -- Proof and certification -- United States
- Death Certificates
- Electronic books
- Ethics, Medical
- Euthanasia -- Law and legislation
- Euthanasia -- Law and legislation -- United States
- LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- LAW -- Medical Law & Legislation
- Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
- Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Right to die -- Law and legislation
- Right to die -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Right to life
- Right to life -- United States
- United States
- United States
- Value of Life
- Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Synopsis: Are 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Foley, Elizabeth Price
- Dewey number
- 344.7304/19
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- KF3827.D4
- LC item number
- F65 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- NLM call number
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- 2011 E-433
- W 33 AA1
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Death
- Life and death, Power over
- Life and death, Power over
- Right to life
- Right to die
- Euthanasia
- Brain Death
- Death
- Death Certificates
- Ethics, Medical
- Value of Life
- United States
- LAW
- LAW
- Death
- Euthanasia
- Life and death, Power over
- Life and death, Power over
- Right to die
- Right to life
- United States
- Label
- The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive
- Control code
- 753976784
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674060906
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j3j55
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753976784
- Label
- The law of life and death, Elizabeth Price Foley
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-296) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive
- Control code
- 753976784
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780674060906
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt1j3j55
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)753976784
Subject
- Brain Death -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Death
- Death -- Proof and certification
- Death -- Proof and certification -- United States
- Death Certificates
- Electronic books
- Ethics, Medical
- Euthanasia -- Law and legislation
- Euthanasia -- Law and legislation -- United States
- LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
- LAW -- Medical Law & Legislation
- Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
- Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Life and death, Power over -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Right to die -- Law and legislation
- Right to die -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Right to life
- Right to life -- United States
- United States
- United States
- Value of Life
- Life and death, Power over -- Decision making
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