New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establi

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence. This book is a multidisciplinary work that investigates the notion of posthumous harm over time. The questio

President's Commission for the study of ethical problems in medicine and biomedical and behavioral research.

In the 1980s, following the recommendation of a presidential commission, all fifty states replaced previous cardiopulmonary definitions of death with one that a

Estimation of the Time Since Death remains the foremost authoritative book on scientifically calculating the estimated time of death postmortem. Building on the