Search results for: “organ transplant”
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Patients’ Rights
ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Competent; Death and Dying; Duress; Fetal Rights; Genetic Screening; Health Care Law; Health Insurance; Liability; Organ Transplantation; Ph…
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Patients’ Rights
ResourcesSee AlsoLaw Dictionaries.Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Competent; Death and Dying; Duress; Fetal Rights; Genetic Screening; Health Care Law; Health Insurance; Liability; Organ Transplantation; Ph…
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Corpse
Legal Definition and Related Resources of Corpse Meaning of Corpse The body, an aggregate or mass, the principal or capital of a fund. Corpse Alternative Definition The dead body of a human being. […]
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Anatomical gift
A gift, made by will or some quasi-testamentary instrument, of all or part or parts of one’s body (e.g., kidney, cornea, heart), to be taken after one’s death for use in medical education or research, or for implantation in the body of some living person in grave need. Because of recent […]
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Alive
The central meaning, something like neither inanimate nor dead, is easy enough. With respect to human beings, however, very tricky conceptual problems arise at both ends of life’s temporal spectrum, i.e., the borderlands between not-yet-alive and alive, and between alive and […]