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Foreword: Imagining a New Era of Neuroimaging, Neuroethics, and Neurolaw
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2021
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1 Jeffrey Rosen, The Brain on the Stand, N.Y. Times Magazine, March 11, 2007, at 49.
2 See, e.g., Ronald E. Cranford Institutional Ethics Committees and Health Care Decision Making (Edward A. Doudera, ed., 1984); Cranford, Ronald et al., Uniform Brain Death Act, 29 Neurology 417 (1979)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ronald E. Cranford, The Spring Case and the Importance of Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Medicolegal News, Feb. 1981, at 17.
3 Conference on the Terri Schiavo Case: One Year Later, held by the Boston University School of Law (Mar. 31, 2006), available at http://www.bu.edu/law/events/audio-video/shiavo.html.
4 Id. (providing links to the entire conference, including Ron Cranford's speech).
5 Id.
6 Id. See also Ronald Cranford, The Persistent Vegetative State: The Medical Reality (Getting the Facts Straight), Hastings Center Report, March 1988, at 27-32.
7 Brophy v. New England Sinai Hosp., 497 N.E.2d 626 (Mass. 1986).
8 Cruzan v. Dir., Mo. Dep't of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990).
9 In re Busalacchi, 1991 Mo. App. 315 (1991).
10 In re Rosebush, 491 N.W.2d 633 (Mich. Ct. App. 1992).
11 In re Martin, 538 N.W.2d 399 (Mich 1995).
12 Conservatorship of Wendland, 28 P.3d 151 (Cal. 2001).
13 Conference on the Terri Schiavo Case: One Year Later, supra note 3. See, e.g., Broder, Andrew J. & Cranford, Ronald E., ‘Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How Was I to Know?’ Michael Martin, Absolute Prescience, and the Right to Die in Michigan, 72 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. 787 (1994)Google Scholar; Nelson, Lawrence J. & Cranford, Ronald E., Michael Martin and Robert Wendland: Beyond the Vegetative State, 15 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 427 (1999).Google Scholar
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16 Senator Majority Leader Bill Frist, Floor Statement on Terri Schiavo Bill (Mar. 17, 2005) available at http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/frist200503181027.asp.
17 151 Cong.Rec.H712-H713 (statement of Sen. Phil Gingrey).
18 151 Cong.Rec.H7115 (statement of Sen. Dave Weldon).
19 Conference on the Terri Schiavo Case: One Year Later, supra note 3.
20 Judge Greer also spoke at the Schiavo conference.
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33 Id.
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36 See, e.g., supra notes 23-24 and accompanying text.
37 Rosen, supra note 1, at 84.
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40 Pinker, supra note 39, at 181 (emphasis in original).
41 Conference on the Terri Schiavo Case: One Year Later, supra note 3.
42 Id.
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