Dying & death in law & medicine : a forensic primer for health and legal professionals / Arthur S. Berger ; medical foreword by David V. Schapira ; legal foreword by Raphael Steinhardt
Death: issues and the law -- Death comes alive -- Dying patient -- Dying patient: nothing but the truth -- Dying patient: on the deathbed -- Right to die -- Right to die: meanings and strategy -- Playing God: the issues -- Last resort -- Competence and incompetence -- Advance directives -- Advance directives and death with dignity -- Determination of death -- Defining death -- Anatomical gifts -- Gift of life: law and ethics -- Law: forms and sources -- Law: forms, systems and procedures -- Sources of law: how to look them up -- Death-related statutes and common-law doctrines -- Guide to the law library
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-216) and index
