Technology, Health, and Law in Life and Death : Before the Cradle to Beyond the Grave

the present and future might hold. It examines how emerging health technologies are profoundly disrupting legal knowledge of life and death in the developed world.The book makes a significant and original contribution to the field of health law and bioethics by adopting a socio-legal perspective in examining the legal, ethical and social implications of technologies that create, sustain and foster life and death. [Publisher's text]