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Informationen zum Autor Norman L. Cantor is a distinguished professor emeritus at Rutgers Law School, Newark, who taught in the fields of constitutional law, contracts, and bioethics. He has published widely in legal and medical journals on the topic of the legal handling of dying medical patients, and is the author of three books: Making Medical Decisions for the Profoundly Mentally Disabled, Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity, and Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying. Klappentext This volume chronicles not only a human corpse's physical state but also its legal and moral status! including what rights! if any! the corpse possesses. The author argues that a corpse maintains a "quasi-human status" granting it certain protected rights-both legal and moral. One of a corpse's purported rights is to have its predecessor's disposal choices upheld. This work reviews unconventional ways in which a person can extend a personal legacy via their corpse's role in medical education! scientific research! or tissue transplantation. The author outlines the limits that post-mortem "human dignity" poses upon disposal options! particularly the use of a cadaver or its parts in educational or artistic displays. Contemporary illustrations of these complex issues abound. Zusammenfassung What will become of our earthly remains? What happens to our bodies during and after the various forms of cadaver disposal available? Who controls the fate of human remains? What legal and moral constraints apply? The author provides a graphic! informative! and entertaining exploration of these questions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part I: Status and Rights of the Cadaver 1. When Does a Person Become a Corpse? 2. The Human Nature of a Cadaver 3. The Legal Status of the Postliving: Do Corpses Have Rights? Part II: Disposition of Human Remains 4. Decomposition of the Body and Efforts to Slow Its Disintegration 5. Final Disposal of Human Remains 6. Eternal Preservation of the Deceased: Literally and Figuratively Part III: The Multiple Roles of a Cadaver 7. The Cadaver as Supplier of Used Body Parts 8. The Cadaver as Teacher! Research Subject! or Forensic Witness 9. The Cadaver as Parent Part IV: Abuses of the Cadaver: What Does Decency Demand? 10. Body Snatching! Then and Now 11. Desecration of Human Remains 12. Public Display and the Dignity of Human Remains 13. Don't Neglect the Fate of Your Remains Notes Bibliography List of Cases Index ...
