| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 311 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 Against the definition of brainstem death; DISCUSSION; The logic of 'criticality'; The prognostic certainty of death; The possibility of exhaustive tests; The significance of the spontaneously beating heart; Implications; NOTES; 2 'Who wants to live forever?'; THE FACTS; WHAT EXACTLY IS THE PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE?; NANCY'S VIEWS; THE MISSOURI DECISION; THE APPEAL TO THE US SUPREME COURT; THE DISTINCTION: ORDINARY/EXTRAORDINARY MEANS; THE PATIENT'S INTEREST |
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IS THERE A RIGHT IN A COMPETENT PATIENT TO REFUSE TREATMENT?FINALITY AND MEDICAL MIRACLES; THE FAMILY; STANDARD OF PROOF; WHAT'S LEFT FOR THE UNITED STATES?; ENGLAND AND WALES; THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION; A MODEST PROPOSAL; THE AFTERMATH; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES; 3 Power over death: the final sting; THE RIGHT TO DIE IN ENGLISH LAW; ADVANCE DECLARATIONS; Problems of regulation; Scope; Abuse; Effects; Duration; English law; PROXY CONSENT; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 4 Corpses, recycling and therapeutic purposes; DEFINITIONS; What counts as a corpse?; What counts as therapeutic?; DUTIES TOWARDS THE DEAD |
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ConsequentialismAutonomy; Rights; Religion; Organ transplants: culturally relative?; Language; DISTINCTIONS OF KIND AND DEGREE; Concentration camp victims; Foetuses; Brains and personal identity; Ovaries; CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; 5 Medical futility: CPR; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; UNIVERSAL CPR?; HARMS AND CPR; AN INCONSISTENT PRACTICE?; WITHHOLDING CPR; Cost; The patient's wishes; Quality of life; Futility; SUMMARY; NOTES; 6 ICU Triage: the ethics of scarcity, the ideal of impartiality and the inadvertent endorsement of evil; INTRODUCTION: SERIOUS RATIONING AND THE INTENSIVE-CARE UNIT |
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SCARCITY, SORTING AND PATIENT ABANDONMENTTHE IDEAL OF IMPARTIALITY: THE MORAL 'COP OUT'; OBJECTION AND CONCLUDING WORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; NOTES; 7 From vision to system: the maturing of the hospice movement; INTRODUCTION; THE VISION; Hospices as a radical critique of postwar terminal care; Vision-the early phase; Presentation of 'the vision'; THE SYSTEM; New schemes, new teams; Diversification and legitimation; Accountable money; THE TENSIONS OF SUCCESS; Challenge from within; Adapting to the status quo; THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE?; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; NOTES |
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8 Animal rights and wrongs: medical ethics and the killing of non-human animalsINTRODUCTION; THE REALITY OF MEDICAL PRACTICE; THE LEGAL PROTECTION AFFORDED TO ANIMALS; STRATEGIES FOR ENDING ANIMAL ABUSE; THE FOSTERING OF MORAL CONCERN; CONCLUSION; NOTES; 9 Tailoring multiparity: the dilemmas surrounding death by selective reduction of pregnancy; HOW COMMON ARE MULTIPLE BIRTHS?; NEW HORIZONS IN HUMAN CONCEPTION; Multiple egg and embryo transfer; HOW MANY IS TOO MANY?; SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES: QUALITY OF LIFE; TAILORING MULTIPARITY; THE EXPERIENCE OF SELECTIVE REDUCTION; WHERE TO DRAW THE LINE? |
| Summary |
First published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Originally published: 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Right to die -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
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Life and death, Power over.
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Life and death, Power over
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Right to die -- Law and legislation
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lee, Robert G
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Morgan, Derek, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0203981421 |
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9780203981429 |
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