Endings and beginnings : law, medicine, and society in assisted life and death

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Endings and beginnings : law, medicine, and society in assisted life and death

Title remainder

law, medicine, and society in assisted life and death

Statement of responsibility

Larry I. Palmer

Creator

• Palmer, Larry I., 1944-

Subject

• Assisted suicide -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Euthanasia -- United States
• Human reproductive technology
• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Jurisprudence
• Physician's Role
• Abortion, Legal -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Right to Die -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Right to die -- United States
• Suicide, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence
• Terminal care
• United States
• Reproductive Techniques, Assisted -- legislation & jurisprudence

Language

eng

Summary

• "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."--Jacket
• "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

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

344.73/04197

Index

index present

LC call number

KF3827.E87

LC item number

P35 2000

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography