Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying

adult antibiotics artificial nutrition assessing autonomy Baby Jane benefits best interests blood transfusion bodily burdens cardiopulmonary resuscitation chapter chemotherapy child neglect common law competent condition Conroy context debilitated decision-making defective infants defective newborns determination dialysis dying patient dying process emotional suffering ethics committee euthanasia existence factor federal guardian handicapped handling Hastings Cent hospital human dignity imminent impaired incompetent patient individual institutional institutional ethics committee involving issue Jersey Supreme Court judicial Karen Ann Quinlan legislative life-preserving medical treatment life-preserving treatment life-sustaining life-threatening medical decisions medical intervention medical patient medical personnel medical practice medical procedures ment never-competent patient Newark Star Ledger nontreatment normal pain patient's prerogative persistent vegetative person physical potential preserving President's Commission prospective Quinlan refusal regarding reject removal resist life-preserving respirator Saikewicz salvageable Section 504 self-determination spina bifida standard substituted judgment suicide supra note surgery terminal decisions terminally ill patient tion withholding