While health professionals may be adequately informed about the
legal aspects of many specialized areas of medicine and nursing,
they may not totally understand the law applicable to cases of
dying patients, or even the legal definition of death itself. In
the wake of advances in medical technology, recent court decisions
on the right to die, the enactment of natural death and brain death
statutes, advance directives and living wills, and growing use of
organ transplantation, there has been widespread concern about the
legal and ethical issues surrounding these subjects. This book,
written by a lawyer-thanatologist, will satisfy these needs. It is
the first work to bring together case and statutory law applicable
to dying patients, the right to die, advance directives, brain
death, and organ transplantation, thus formulating a law of dying
and death.
It is also unique as a self-help law finder. Although occasions
that require consultation with a lawyer will arise, this work gives
health professionals practical guidance on where and how to find
legal materials on these issues. This book should also prove
immensely useful in summarizing the law concerning dying and death
for professional legal counsel. Medical decisions and issues that
once were the sole province of doctors, hospitals, patients, and
families have become matters of increasing judicial and legislative
attention.
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