Last Rights
Subtitle: The Struggle Over the Right to Die
Publisher: Da Capo
Published: January 23, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780738203508
Subjects: Death & Dying; Euthanasia; Medical Ethics; Social Science; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Sociology; USA; Ethics; Medical Law & Legislation; Assisted suicide; Law / Medical Law & Legislation; Medical-Ethics; Right to die
First sentence: Since the early 1990s, when the bizarre figure of Jack Kevorkian drove his now-famous rusty Volkswagen van onto the national scene, his front-seat passenger, death, has muscled its way into the headlines, into the nation's courtrooms and legislatures, and into our collective political consciousness.