The law of life and death [[electronic resource] /] / Elizabeth Price Foley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456542603321
• Autore: Foley Elizabeth Price
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 0-674-06090-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 p.)
• Disciplina: 344.7304/19
• Soggetti: Death - Proof and certification - United States; Life and death, Power over - Moral and ethical aspects; Life and death, Power over - Decision making; Right to life - United States; Right to die - Law and legislation - United States; Euthanasia - Law and legislation - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-296) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Statutory and common law life -- Constitutional life -- Cardiopulmonary death -- Brain death -- Constitutional death -- Not dead yet -- Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
• Sommario/riassunto: Are you alive? What makes you so sure? Most people believe this question has a clear answer-that some law defines our status as living (or not) for all purposes. But they are dead wrong. In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Price Foley examines the many, and surprisingly ambiguous, legal definitions of what counts as human life and death.Foley reveals that "not being dead" is not necessarily the same as being alive, in the eyes of the law. People, pre-viable fetuses, and post-viable fetuses have different sets of legal rights, which explains the law's seemingly inconsistent approach to stem cell research, in vitro fertilization, frozen embryos, in utero embryos, contraception, abortion, homicide, and wrongful death.In a detailed analysis that is sure to be controversial, Foley shows how the need for more organ transplants and the need to conserve health care resources are exerting steady pressure to expand the legal definition of death. As a result, death is being declared faster than ever before. The ";right to die,"; ; Foley worries, may be morphing slowly into an obligation to die.Foley's balanced, accessible chapters explore the most contentious legal issues of our time-including cryogenics, feticide, abortion, physician-assisted suicide, brain death, vegetative and minimally conscious states, informed consent, and advance directives-across constitutional, contract, tort, property, and criminal law. Ultimately, she suggests, the inconsistencies and ambiguities in U.S. laws governing life and death may be culturally, and perhaps even psychologically, necessary for an enormous and diverse country like ours.

An abridgement or a compendius commemoration of the remarkablest chronologies which are contained in that famous Ecclesiastical history of Eusebius Pamphilius [[electronic resource] ] : with an usefull index to the same : containing in it also the second part, a summary or brief hint of the twelve persecutions sustained by the antient Christians, with a compendious paraphrase upon the same : whereunto is added a Catalogue of the synods and councells which were after the dayes of the apostles, together with a hint of what was decreed in the same : and for the helpe and benefit of young schollars and such as are illiterate (or little better) the most of the hard words are explained in the same, by William Caton

• Record Nr.: UNISA996386884003316
• Autore: Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, <ca. 260-ca. 340.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for the author, and are to be enquired for at Tho. Simmons and Rob. VVilsons ... and also at Tho. VVilliams ..., 1661
• Descrizione fisica: 239, [1] p
• Altri autori (Persone): CatonWilliam <1636-1665.>
• Soggetti: Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Persecution - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translation of: Historia ecclesiastica.; The second part of the abridgement has special t.p.; Page 132 print shows through in the filmed copy. Pages 120-145 photographed from Friend's Library, London, copy and inserted at the end.; Marginal notes.; Includes index.; Errata: p. [1] at end.; Reproduction of original in British Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018

Thinking about harmony : historical perspectives on analysis / / David Damschroder [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777047903321
• Autore: Damschroder David
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
• ISBN: 1-107-18733-8; 1-281-38343-0; 9786611383435; 0-511-39838-7; 0-511-39763-1; 0-511-48206-X; 0-511-39686-4; 0-511-39922-7; 0-511-39613-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 781.09034
• Soggetti: Musical analysis - History - 19th century; Harmony - History; Music - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [322]-327) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chord identification. Arabic and Roman numerals ; Daube's three chords and the emergence of a function theory ; Chordal roots ; Mendelssohn's Wedding March and British harmonic theory -- Chordal embellishment. Rameau on suspensions ; Kirnberger's incidental ; dissonances ; Embellishment in a phrase by Chopin ; Koch's Stamakkord and the dissonant 6/4 ; A Beethoven/Schubert connection ; Berlioz and Fetis on embellishment -- Parallel and sequential progressions. Parallel motion in thirds or sixths ; Chains of descending fifths ; Langle's Tours de l'harmonie ; Schubert's transformation of the ascending 5-6 sequence -- Harmonic progression. The artistic progression of harmonic triads ; Rankings of chord successions ; Portmann's rules of succession ; The privileged fifth ; Succession by third ; Succession by second ; Koch's model : Schubert's composition -- Chordal hierarchy. Passing note, passing chord ; Reductive analysis in the nineteenth century ; Hierarchy in fifth-related chords ; Dehn on Beethoven -- Modulation to closely related keys. An analytical pioneer : Lampe ; Chromatic pitches as modulatory triggers ; Non-modulatory analysis ; Multiple meaning ; Prout's modulatory practice -- Chromatic chords : diminished/augmented. Chords via "licence" ; Enharmonicism ; Diminished seventh chords in Weber's Euryanthe ; Marx on diminished thirds (augmented sixths) ; Weitzmann on diminished sevenths -- Chromatic chords : major and minor. ♭II : the strategy of denial ; ♭II : strategies of inclusion ; Non-diatonic goals of modulation ; Rossini and the major mediant ; Seyfried's and Schubert's modulations ; A Wagnerian antipodal conundrum ; A parallel progression in Verdi's Luisa Miller -- Epilogue -- Biographies of music theorists.
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on music written in the period 1800-1850, Thinking about Harmony traces the responses of observant musicians to the music that was being created in their midst by composers including Beethoven, Schubert, and Chopin. It tells the story of how a separate branch of musical activity - music analysis - evolved out of the desire to make sense of the music, essential both to its enlightened performance and to its appreciation. The book integrates two distinct areas of musical inquiry - the history of music theory and music analysis - and the various notions that shape harmonic theory are put to the test through practical application, creating a unique and intriguing synthesis. Aided by an extensive compilation of carefully selected and clearly annotated music examples, readers can explore a panoramic projection of the era's analytical responses to harmony, thereby developing a more intimate rapport with the period.