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An excellent presentation of perspectives of US case and statutory law on dying and death that examines how law, medicine, and thanatology intersect around questions created by medical technology. This book should be read by all health professionals, pastoral counselors and hospice professionals, attorneys offering services to individuals facing the end of life, and families of such individuals as well. General; advanced undergraduate through professional. -Choice This is a unique and excellent book which should be of considerable value to many in the medical, health care and legal professions. Although principally for and about the dying patient, his rights and choices, it is significantly couched in technical language for the professional. -The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research This book makes a valuable contribution in presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of the legal aspects of dying and death. It will go a long way toward helping health professionals understand the law and judicial system, This book is recommended for public library and health science center library collections. -A.L.B.R. ?This is a unique and excellent book which should be of considerable value to many in the medical, health care and legal professions. Although principally for and about the dying patient, his rights and choices, it is significantly couched in technical language for the professional.?-The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research ?An excellent presentation of perspectives of US case and statutory law on dying and death that examines how law, medicine, and thanatology intersect around questions created by medical technology. This book should be read by all health professionals, pastoral counselors and hospice professionals, attorneys offering services to individuals facing the end of life, and families of such individuals as well. General; advanced undergraduate through professional.?-Choice ?This book makes a valuable contribution in presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of the legal aspects of dying and death. It will go a long way toward helping health professionals understand the law and judicial system, This book is recommended for public library and health science center library collections.?-A.L.B.R.

?An excellent presentation of perspectives of US case and statutory law on dying and death that examines how law, medicine, and thanatology intersect around questions created by medical technology. This book should be read by all health professionals, pastoral counselors and hospice professionals, attorneys offering services to individuals facing the end of life, and families of such individuals as well. General; advanced undergraduate through professional.?-Choice

An excellent presentation of perspectives of US case and statutory law on dying and death that examines how law, medicine, and thanatology intersect around questions created by medical technology. This book should be read by all health professionals, pastoral counselors and hospice professionals, attorneys offering services to individuals facing the end of life, and families of such individuals as well. General; advanced undergraduate through professional. -Choice This is a unique and excellent book which should be of considerable value to many in the medical, health care and legal professions. Although principally for and about the dying patient, his rights and choices, it is significantly couched in technical language for the professional. -The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research This book makes a valuable contribution in presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of the legal aspects of dying and death. It will go a long way toward helping health professionals understand the law and judicial system, This book is recommended for public library and health science center library collections. -A.L.B.R. ?This is a unique and excellent book which should be of considerable value to many in the medical, health care and legal professions. Although principally for and about the dying patient, his rights and choices, it is significantly couched in technical language for the professional.?-The Journal of Religion and Psychical Research ?This book makes a valuable contribution in presenting a comprehensive, up-to-date presentation of the legal aspects of dying and death. It will go a long way toward helping health professionals understand the law and judicial system, This book is recommended for public library and health science center library collections.?-A.L.B.R. ?An excellent presentation of perspectives of US case and statutory law on dying and death that examines how law, medicine, and thanatology intersect around questions created by medical technology. This book should be read by all health professionals, pastoral counselors and hospice professionals, attorneys offering services to individuals facing the end of life, and families of such individuals as well. General; advanced undergraduate through professional.?-Choice

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ARTHUR S. BERGER is Director of the International Institute for the Study of Death, President of the Survival Research Foundation, member of the Broward General Medical Center Bioethics Committee, and Vice -President of Cross-Cultural Affairs of the Foundation of Thantology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest and Who's Who Among Human Services Professionals, he is the co-editor of To Die or Not to Die? Cross-Disciplinary, Cultural, and Legal Perspectives on the Right to Choose Death (Praeger, 1990), and Perspectives on Death and Dying (1989). He is also the author of several books including the critically acclaimed Lives and Letters in American Parapsychology, selected by Choice for its outstanding academic list, and the co-author of the Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research (1991).

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