Bioethics and Public Health Law, Second Edition, integrates public health and bioethics into a focused casebook that is ideal for Health Law courses. Clear notes provide context, ensure smooth transitions between cases, and provide background information. The authors website features updates of important events and links to Internet resources. The text blends updated material from Part II of their popular survey book, Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition, with additional information specific to these topics:
The duty to treat and wrongful
reasons to reject patients
Discrimination
Informed consent and experimentation
Fiduciary duty
The right to health care
Intellectual property and the ownership of genetic discoveries
Disaster Planning and Bioterrorism Preparedness
New to the Second Edition:
Ashcroft s challenge to Oregon s assisted suicide law
Gonzales v. Carhart-the Supreme Court s landmark abortion decision
The D.C. Circuit s Abigail Alliance decision, regarding the constitutionality of FDA regulation
Greenberg v. Miami Children s Hospital Research Institute, regarding ownership of human tissue
New developments in organ allocation policy
Expect focused coverage of bioethics and public health law-including timely cutting-edge topics from the authors who brought you Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition.
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