NYU Press Medicine and the Law: 50 (Law and Legal)

This Major Reference series brings together a wide range of key international articles in law and legal theory. Many of these essays are not readily accessible, and their presentation in these volumes will provide a vital new resource for both research and teaching. Each volume is edited by leading international authorities who explain the significance and context of articles in an informative and complete introduction. Review "A story collection showing immense mastery of character, dialect, and narrative...Distinguished indeed. May Marsella take on the novel." -"Kirkus Reviews", "Earthy and spiritual, particular and universal, and often very sly and funny. The range and diversity Anne Marsella displays, stunning for a first collection, give convincing proof of a fresh talent emerging with full, and impressive, power."-"The New York Times Book Review", Synopsis This volume uses a number of legal essays derived from medical practices and developments in order to illustrate jurisprudential themes medical treatments providing a medium through which the different effects of legal theories may be explored, and their implications considered, in a context that ha