The law of life and death / Elizabeth Price Foley.

Synopsis: 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 de...

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Main Author: Foley, Elizabeth Price
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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505 0 |a Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive. 
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