Dying and Death in Law and Medicine

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).

Preface Medical Foreword by David V. Schapira Legal Foreword by Hon. Raphael Steinhardt Death: Issues and Law Death Comes Alive The Dying Patient The Dying Patient: Nothing But the Truth The Dying Patient: On the Deathbed Right to Die Right to Die: Meanings and Strategy Playing God: The Issues The Last Resort Competence and Incompetence Advance Directives Advance Directives and Death with Dignity Determination of Death Defining Death Anatomical Gifts The Gift of Life: Law and Ethics Law: Forms and Sources Law Forms, Systems and Procedures Sources of Law: How to Look Them Up Appendices Death-Related Statutes and Common Law Doctrines Guide to the Law Library Table of Cases Selected Bibliography Index