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Whose Life Is It Anyway? By Brian Clark (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1979) 146 pp., $7.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2021

Jay Alexander Gold
Jay Alexander Gold*
Affiliation:
New York University; Harvard University; Medical Genetics Center, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston;, American Journal of Law & Medicine
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Short Reviews of Selected Books and Articles
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1980 , pp. 219 - 221
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1980

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References

27 Wisdom, J., Paradox and Discovery 55 (1965)Google Scholar.

28 Clark, B., Whose Life is it Anyway? 76 (1979)Google Scholar.

29 Id. at 82.

30 id. at 56.

31 Id. at 41, 71, 96, 143.

32 Id. at 91, 136.

33 Id. at 68.

34 Id. at 98.

35 Id.

36 See, e.g., Satz v. Perlmutter, 379 So. 2d 359 (Fla. 1980), in which the Florida Supreme Court held that a competent adult patient with no minor dependents, suffering from a terminal illness, has the right (under the constitutional right of privacy) to refuse or to discontinue extraordinary medical. treatment where all affected family members consent. Admittedly, Harrison’s condition, unlike Perlmutter’s, is not “terminal“; nevertheless, the situations are otherwise quite similar.