This paper examines informed consent in relation to research involving the newly dead.
Reasons are presented for facilitating advance decision making in relation to postmortem …

Research involving the dead, especially heart-beating cadavers, may facilitate the testing of
potentially revolutionary and life-saving medical treatments. However, to ensure that such …

Focusing on a single, uncontested will is unusual within legal studies. And the extensive
literature about EM Forster has overlooked the significance of his will. This article …

lt is with great pleasure that I write this preface for Or Li's book, wh ich addresses the
venerable and vexing issues surrounding the problem of whether death can be a harm to …

This article explicates Epicurus's ambiguous declaration that “death is nothing to us,”
discusses its philosophical implications, and answers the most common recent …

I. Introduction A little more than a decade ago, Willard Gaylin saw a frightening and
unbelievable vision of the future: brain dead bodies, 1 maintained on artificial life supports …

In a provocative 1974 article entitled “Harvesting the Dead,” Willard Gaylin explored
potential uses of “neomorts,” or what are currently referred to as “heart-beating cadavers” …

TO DATE, studies of physicians show only a minute occupational risk of infection with the
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). 1 Even after a needlestick-type injury, seroconversion …

There is one serious misconstrual and one plausible but ultimately unsatisfactory
assumption in Don Marquis's criticisms.'A discussion of the first may be self-serving, but a …

This thesis discusses the missing or underrepresented women of power and authority within
the written history of Mozambique's Zambezi region. It argues that several generations of …