Posthumous Interests Legal and Ethical Perspectives

Klappentext Daniel Sperling discusses the legal status of posthumous interests and their possible defeat by actions performed following the death of a person. The author first explores the following questions: Do the dead have interests and/or rights, the defeat of which may constitute harm? What does posthumous harm consist of and when does it occur, if at all? This is followed by a more detailed analysis of three categories of posthumous interests arising in the medico-legal context: the proprietary interest in the body of the deceased, the testamentary interest in determining the disposal of one's body after death and the interest in post-mortem medical confidentiality. Sperling concludes that if we acknowledge the interest in one's symbolic existence and legally protect it, not only do some interests survive a person's death but we should also enjoy a peremptory legal power to shape in advance our symbolic existence after death. Zusammenfassung The legal status of posthumous interests is explored and analysed! specifically in three categories of interest arising in the medico-legal context: the proprietary interest in the body of the deceased! the testamentary interest in determining the disposal of one's body after death and the interest in post-mortem confidentiality. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Posthumous harm, posthumous interests and symbolic existence; 2. Posthumous rights; 3. Proprietary interest in the body of the deceased; 4. Determining the disposal of one's body after death; 5. Medical confidentiality after death; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel (Senior Lecturer Sperling, Sperling Daniel, Daniel Sperling
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 17.02.2011
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780521187664
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18766-4
• Pages: 304
• Series: Cambridge Law, Medicine and Et > 7; Cambridge Law, Medicine and Ethics
• Subjects: LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, LAW / Constitutional, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law