Law and Bioethics: An Introduction

by Menikoff, Jerry

• ISBN13: 9780878408399
• ISBN10: 0878408398
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law and Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the "ethical" analysis, the book covers such topics as abortion, surrogacy, cloning, informed consent, malpractice, refusal of care, and organ transplantation.

Structured like a legal casebook, this book includes the text of almost all the landmark cases that have shaped bioethics. Menikoff offers commentary on each of these cases, as well as a lucid introduction to the U.S. legal system, explaining federalism and underlying common law concepts. Students and professionals in medicine and public health, as well as specialists in bioethics, will find the book a valuable resource.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
Part I The American Constitutional Structure
Federalism and Bioethics	9	(8)
Part II Reproduction
The Right to Privacy	17	(22)
Introduction	17	(1)
The Meaning of ``Due Process''	18	(7)
Griswold v. Connecticut	19	(4)
Notes and Questions	23	(2)
The Meaning of ``Equal Protection''	25	(14)
Eisenstadt v. Baird	27	(5)
Notes and Questions	32	(7)
The Past and Present of Sterilization	39	(14)
Introduction	39	(14)
Buck v. Bell	40	(1)
Notes and Questions	41	(2)
Skinner v. Oklahoma	43	(3)
Notes and Questions	46	(1)
Conservatorship of Valerie N.	47	(3)
Notes and Questions	50	(3)
The Right to Abortion	53	(31)
Introduction	53	(31)
Roe v. Wade	54	(9)
Notes and Questions	63	(5)
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey	68	(6)
Notes and Questions	74	(2)
Stenberg v. Carhart	76	(6)
Notes and Questions	82	(2)
The Brave New World of Reproduction	84	(44)
Introduction	84	(11)
In re Baby M	85	(7)
Notes and Questions	92	(3)
Gestational Surrogacy	95	(14)
Johnson v. Calvert	97	(10)
Notes and Questions	107	(2)
Parenthood and the United States Constitution	109	(9)
Michael H. v. Gerald D.	110	(5)
Notes and Questions	115	(3)
Cloning	118	(10)
The Current and Future Legal Status of Cloning	119	(4)
Notes and Questions	123	(5)
Beyond Abortion: The Interests of Women and Fetuses	128	(23)
Introduction	128	(23)
In re A.C.	130	(6)
Notes and Questions	136	(5)
Whitner v. State	141	(3)
Notes and Questions	144	(7)
Part III Doctors, Patients, and Standards of Care
The Doctor Patient Relationship	151	(34)
Introduction	151	(3)
Hurley v. Eddingfield	152	(1)
Notes and Questions	153	(1)
The Law of Torts: From Battery to Informed Consent	154	(21)
Canterbury v. Spence	157	(9)
Notes and Questions	166	(4)
Helling v. Carey	170	(3)
Notes and Questions	173	(2)
Confidentiality	175	(10)
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California	176	(5)
Notes and Questions	181	(4)
The Outer Limits of Informed Consent	185	(24)
Introduction	185	(7)
Johnson v. Kokemoor	186	(4)
Notes and Questions	190	(2)
The Conflicted World of Managed Care	192	(17)
Herdrich v. Pegram	194	(7)
Notes and Questions	201	(8)
Beyond ``Standard Care'': Alternative Medicine, Experimentation, and Research	209	(32)
Introduction	209	(7)
In re Guess	210	(2)
Notes and Questions	212	(4)
Experimentation and Research	216	(25)
Stewart v. Cleveland Clinic Foundation	217	(4)
Notes and Questions	221	(6)
Adams v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maryland, Inc.	227	(6)
Notes and Questions	233	(8)
Part IV End-of-Life Decisions
The Right to Refuse Care	241	(63)
Introduction	241	(27)
In re Quinlan	242	(10)
Notes and Questions	252	(4)
Bouvia v. Superior Court	256	(6)
Notes and Questions	262	(6)
Making Decisions for Incompetent Patients	268	(36)
Advance Directives	269	(1)
Beyond Advance Directives	270	(1)
Illinois Health Care Surrogate Act	271	(3)
Notes and Questions	274	(2)
Lane v. Candura	276	(3)
Notes and Questions	279	(5)
In re Conroy	284	(8)
Notes and Questions	292	(12)
The Constitution and the Right to Die	304	(52)
Introduction	304	(23)
Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health	304	(18)
Notes and Questions	322	(5)
Physician-Assisted Suicide	327	(29)
Washington v. Glucksberg	329	(11)
Notes and Questions	340	(6)
Vacco v, Quill	346	(3)
Notes and Questions	349	(2)
Oregon Death with Dignity Act	351	(2)
Notes and Questions	353	(3)
``Futile'' Medical Care	356	(21)
Introduction	356	(21)
In re Wanglie	357	(3)
Notes and Questions	360	(2)
Causey v. St. Francis Medical Center	362	(3)
Notes and Questions	365	(1)
In re Baby K	366	(4)
Notes and Questions	370	(7)
Part V New Technologies
The ``Uniqueness'' of Genetics	377	(27)
Introduction	377	(27)
Katskee v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska	377	(5)
Notes and Questions	382	(2)
Safer v. Pack	384	(3)
Notes and Questions	387	(1)
Foundation on Economic Trends v. Heckler	388	(6)
National Institutes of Health: Recombinant DNA Research	394	(6)
Notes and Questions	400	(4)
The Ownership of Life	404	(39)
Introduction	404	(39)
Moore v. Regents of the University of Califonia	407	(7)
Notes and Questions	414	(3)
Davis v. Davis	417	(8)
Notes and Questions	425	(5)
Hecht v. Superior Court	430	(7)
Notes and Questions	437	(6)
Part VI Death and Transplantation
The Definition of Death	443	(25)
Introduction	443	(19)
In re Bowman	444	(6)
Notes and Questions	450	(5)
In re T.A.C.P.	455	(6)
Notes and Questions	461	(1)
The Heart-Lung Criteria for Death: Everything Old Is New Again	462	(6)
Notes and Questions	464	(4)
Organ Transplantation	468	(27)
Introduction	468	(18)
McFall v. Shimp	469	(1)
Notes and Questions	470	(2)
Strunk v. Strunk	472	(1)
Notes and Questions	473	(3)
State v. Powell	476	(3)
Notes and Questions	479	(3)
Wilson v. Adkins	482	(2)
Notes and Questions	484	(2)
Allocating Organs	486	(9)
Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network	486	(4)
Notes and Questions	490	(5)
Glossary	495	(4)
Table of Cases	499	(2)
Index	501