Bioethical and Evolutionary Approaches to Medicine and the Law

by Keyes, W. Noel

• ISBN13: 9781590317259
• ISBN10: 1590317254
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Amer Bar Assn

Summary

Bioethics is a multidisciplinary field of law and one that can not be ignored. Bioethical and Evolutionary Approaches to Medicine and the Law is a comprehensive, scholarly analysis of bioethics and the development of its standards. The book is broken up into the following four parts: * Part I deals with scientific, religious, ethical and legal aspects of bioethics * Part II evaluates 100 current bioethical issues and sets forth specific approaches for their resolution * Part III focuses on medical, legal and other problems from beginning of life (overpopulation, birth control, in vitro fertilization, etc.) through end of life (physician assisted suicide, advance directives, euthanasia, etc.) * Part IV discusses the major bioethical issues in genetics and genetic engineering.

Table of Contents

The Revolution of Bioethics; The American Republic and the Large Increase in the Financing of Healthcare
Bioethics and the Development of Its Standards
The AMA's and ABA's Ethical Standards, Lawyer Ethical Examinations, the Restatement, and HHS
Members of Hospital Ethics Committees
Some Differences in Methods of Learning the Practice of Bioethics
Divisions of Bioethical Subjects and the Law Thereon
The Use of Chapters 1-4 Together with Each of Chapters 5-15
Episodes of good v. Good and "Twenty-first Century Approaches"
Developing Internationalization of Bioethical Law in the Twenty-first Century
Sources of Bioethics for Members of Hospitals, Ethics Committees, and Regulators of Healthcare	p. 1
Drawing Lines in Bioethics: Medicine and the Law	p. 3
The Creation and Evolution of the Universe and Humankind	p. 27
Religious Sources, Their Restrictions, and Their Possible Bioethical Standards	p. 73
Some Differences and Difficulties with Science and Philosophy in the Search for Bioethical Standards	p. 145
Autonomy, Responsibility, and Informed Consent	p. 189
Ethics, Bioethics and Ethics Committees	p. 279
The Issues Bioethics Must Continue to Solve During the Twenty-first Century	p. 363
To Conceive or Not to Conceive - The Ethics of Family Planning and Birth Control	p. 365
Infertility, Impotence, and Cloning	p. 421
The Choice of Abortion	p. 497
Fetal Abuse and Severely Defective Newborns	p. 561
Restrictions on the Sources and Allocation of Organ Transplants	p. 605
The Right to Die with Dignity	p. 689
The Right to Dignity in the Dying Process	p. 691
Improvements Needed in the Twenty-first Century Right to Die	p. 779
End-of-Life Choices of Terminal Patients	p. 857
Bioethics and Future Somatic and Germline Gene Therapy	p. 921
Bioethics on Genetics Superseding the Human Genome Project	p. 923
Epilogue	p. 1021
Environmental Crises at the Turn of the Third Millennium	p. 1077
Some Views on Medicine in the Two Chinas and Tibet at the Turn of the Millennium	p. 1113
False Claims Act Settlements and Rulings in Healthcare Organizations	p. 1125
Millennia	p. 1135
Genetic Research and Economic Advantage of Abbreviated New Drug Applications	p. 1137
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