Pain, Death, and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pain, Death, and the Law write by Austin Sarat. This book was released on 2009-09-11. Pain, Death, and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays examines the relationship between pain, death, and the law and addresses the question of how the law constructs pain and death as jurisprudential facts. The empirical focus of these essays enables the reader to delve into both the history and the theoretical complexities of the pain-death-law relationship. The combination of the theoretical and the empirical broadens the contribution this volume will undoubtedly make to debates in which the right to live or die is the core issue at hand. This volume will be an important read for policy makers and legal practitioners and a valuable text for courses in law, the social sciences, and the humanities. Austin Sarat is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College.
Approaching Death
Approaching Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaching Death write by Committee on Care at the End of Life. This book was released on 1997-10-30. Approaching Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
The Law of Life and Death
The Law of Life and Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Law of Life and Death write by Elizabeth Price Foley. This book was released on 2011-08-01. The Law of Life and Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Physician-Assisted Death
Physician-Assisted Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Physician-Assisted Death write by James M. Humber. This book was released on 1994-02-04. Physician-Assisted Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Physician-Assisted Death is the eleventh volume of Biomedical Ethics Reviews. We, the editors, are pleased with the response to the series over the years and, as a result, are happy to continue into a second decade with the same general purpose and zeal. As in the past, contributors to projected volumes have been asked to summarize the nature of the literature, the prevailing attitudes and arguments, and then to advance the discussion in some way by staking out and arguing forcefully for some basic position on the topic targeted for discussion. For the present volume on Physician-Assisted Death, we felt it wise to enlist the services of a guest editor, Dr. Gregg A. Kasting, a practicing physician with extensive clinical knowledge of the various problems and issues encountered in discussing physician assisted death. Dr. Kasting is also our student and just completing a graduate degree in philosophy with a specialty in biomedical ethics here at Georgia State University. Apart from a keen interest in the topic, Dr. Kasting has published good work in the area and has, in our opinion, done an excellent job in taking on the lion's share of editing this well-balanced and probing set of essays. We hope you will agree that this volume significantly advances the level of discussion on physician-assisted euthanasia. Incidentally, we wish to note that the essays in this volume were all finished and committed to press by January 1993.
Law and Loss
Law and Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and Loss write by Meredith Rountree. This book was released on 2014. Law and Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Empirical research into the effects of mass incarceration reveals that the pains of contemporary imprisonment extend far beyond prison walls. This paper surveys how mass incarceration disrupts individual lives in wide-ranging ways, exacerbating existing social disadvantages, alienating families and neighbors, and further marginalizing the communities to which these individuals belong. While these effects are profound, the toll of mass incarceration is almost as invisible as it is potent, building as it does on existing structures of disadvantage. By contrast, the visibility the law accords victim survivors in death penalty cases exacts its own cost. The American death penalty system combines with broader social dynamics to create a sociologically ambivalent role for victim survivors -- one that both offers and constrains opportunities to grieve. This paper suggests the need for further empirical research on ways the law influences how individuals reconcile the multiple demands of grief, mourning, and legal participation, as well as how the individual survivor's social resources may influence his or her use of the law. In both cases, however, we see how the law shapes the experience of loss, both on its own and in conjunction with stigma and other social processes.
