Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law
Offers an analysis of bioethics and the development of its standards. This book deals with scientific, religious, ethical and legal aspects of bioethics. It evaluates 100 bioethical issues and sets forth specific approaches for their resolution. It also focuses on medical, legal and other problems from beginning of life through end of life.
Print Book, English, 2007
Committee on Biotechnology, American Bar Association, Chicago, 2007
lvii, 1,174 pages ; 26 cm
9781590317259, 1590317254
1127802467
Drawing lines in bioethics: medicine and the law
The creation and evolution of the universe and humankind
Religious sources, their restrictions, and their possible bioethical standards
Some differences and difficulties with science and philosophy in the search for bioethical standards
Autonomy, responsibility, and informed consent
Ethics, bioethics and ethics committees
To conceive or not to conceive: the ethics of family planning and birth control
Infertility, impotence, and cloning
The choice of abortion
Fetal abuse and severely defective newborns
Restrictions on the sources and allocation of organ transplants
The right to dignity in the dying process
Improvements needed in the twenty-first century right to die
End-of-life choices of terminal patients
Bioethics on genetics superseding the human genome project