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Normativity And Biomedicine In The United States Of America, Charles Baron
Normativity And Biomedicine In The United States Of America, Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
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Life And Death Decision-Making: Judges V. Legislators As Sources Of Law In Bioethics, Charles Baron
Life And Death Decision-Making: Judges V. Legislators As Sources Of Law In Bioethics, Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
In some situations, courts may be better sources of new law than legislatures. Some support for this proposition is provided by the performance of American courts in the development of law regarding the “right to die.” When confronted with the problems presented by mid-Twentieth Century technological advances in prolonging human life, American legislators were slow to act. It was the state common law courts, beginning with Quinlan in 1976, that took primary responsibility for gradually crafting new legal principles that excepted withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment from the application of general laws dealing with homicide and suicide. These courts, like the …
Normativity And Biomedicine In The United States Of America, Charles Baron
Normativity And Biomedicine In The United States Of America, Charles Baron
Charles H. Baron
No abstract provided.