Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Science in the Service of Medicine and Law; Chapter 2 Assisted Reproduction: Do We Need Legislative Definitions of the Family; Chapter 3 Creating One's Own Death: Is There a Constitutional Right to Die; Chapter 4 Chronically Ill or Terminal A Question for Legislatures; Chapter 5 The Role of Physicians in Our Dying: Relievers of Suffering; Chapter 6 Physicians' Constitutional Rights: Relievers of Pain; Chapter 7 Physicians' Legislative Privileges to Assist Life or Death; Chapter 8 Professionalism Autonomy and Medical Progress
Summary
As society faces the repercussions of assisted life and death, the news tells of legal battles over frozen embryos and doctors prosecuted after patients' suicide. Palmer argues society should not turn to law and science to determine such intimate matters as how our children are born and how we die
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index
