The Law of Life and Death

by Elizabeth Price Foley

Book Overview

Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer--that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.

Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674051041
• ISBN13: 9780674051041
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"