LAW AT THE END OF LIFE by Carl E. Schneider (Editor) ( 9780472111572 )

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LAW AT THE END OF LIFE
THE SUPREME COURT AND ASSISTED SUICIDE

By:

Carl E. Schneider (Editor)

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Hardback

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0472111574

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9780472111572

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THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS

Pub. date:

11 September, 2000

Pages:

376

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Discusses the issues surrounding physician-assisted suicide in light of the Supreme Court's recent decision

Synopsis:

We live in a world in which courts crucially shape public policy through constitutional adjudication. This is a book written for that world. It brings together a group of distinguished scholars from many disciplines to examine the Supreme Court's recent decision that statutes prohibiting doctors from helping their patients commit suicide may be constitutional. It offers a guide to that decision and to the larger issues it raises for citizens and scholars alike. It asks everyone's first question: What does the decision mean for today and tomorrow? It asks the lawyer's question: Is the Supreme Court's reasoning clear and convincing? It asks the doctor's question: How will the decision affect the decisions physicians make with their patients? It asks the ethicist's question: Will the decision conduce to wise and just decisions at the end of life? It asks the historian's question: How are we to understand the Court's work in light of our disturbing national experience with euthanasia? Ultimately, it asks the questions citizens need to ask in our new world: Is constitutional adjudication a good way to make public policy? Are courts well equipped--with experience, with doctrine, with wisdom--to make good policy? What role should courts have in making policy in a democracy? Has the Supreme Court made good public policy? What is the right policy for law at the end of life?Carl Schneider is Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School.

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