Death Rites and Rights

Belinda Brooks-Gordon

ISBN : 9781841137322
Publisher : Hart Publishing Limited U.K.
Publication Year : 2007
Imprint : Hart Publishing
CD Included : No
Pages : 322
Binding : Paperback

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Death has diverse religious, social, legal, and medical aspects and is one of the main areas in which medicine and the law intersect. In this volume, we ask: What is the meaning of death in contemporary Britain, and in other cultures, and how has it changed over time? The essays in this collection tackle the diverse ways in which death is now experienced in modern society, in the process answering a wide variety of questions: How is death defined by law? Do the dead have legal rights? What is one allowed to have and not have done to one's body after death? What are the rights of next of kin in this respect? What compensation exists for death and how is death valued? What is happening to the law on euthanasia and suicide? Is there a human ...

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