Description: "Larry Palmer forces us to think in new ways about how law and medicine intersect at the beginning and end of life. He shows that decisions for newborns and people with terminal illnesses must not be permitted to rest solely on either medical judgement or legal imperatives, that they inevitably -- and rightly - entail religious convictions, individual values, and family circumstances. Endings and Beginnings is an important and provocative book." - Daniel J. Kevles Professor of The Humanities California Institute of Technology author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, The Physicists: the History of A Scientific Community in Modern America, The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character

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