Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 311 pages)
ISBN:
9780203981429
,
9781134826278
,
9781134826315
Inhalt:
Against the definition of brainstem death / Martyn Evans -- 'Who wants to live forever?' / Peter Alldridge -- Power over death : the final sting / Jonathan Montgomery -- Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes / Ruth F. Chadwick -- Medical futility : CPR / John Saunders -- ICU triage : the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil / Stuart F. Spicker -- From vision to system : the maturing of the hospice movement / Nicky James -- Animal rights and wrongs : medical ethics and the killing of non-human animals / Marie Fox -- Tailoring multiparity : the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy / Frances Price -- Disasters : the role of institutional responses in shaping public perceptions of death / Celia Wells -- Relatively late payments : damages beyond death and bereavement / Derek Morgan -- Risking death by dangerous sexual behaviour and the criminal law / K.J.M. Smith -- Deathly silence : doctors' duty to disclose dangers of death / Robert Lee.
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781134826322
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203981429
