Burt, R.A.

Death is that man taking names: intersections of American medicine, law, and culture - Berkeley University of California press 2002 - xi, 221p.

Explores ways in which death is confronted by the law such as physician assisted suicide, abortion and capital punishment. It discusses medical ethics, jurisprudence, psychoanalysis and political history.

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Death|Physicians|Suicide|Capital Punishment|Psychoanalysis

BF 789 .B87 2002