Bioethics and Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems

Author: Michael H. Shapiro
Published: December 2002
Publisher: West Group
ISBN: 0314066004
Hardcover Book
Number of Pages: 1495

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Introduces students to a wide range of law-related activities with selected materials that are instructive for lawyers, judges, and legislators (and other counselors, adjudicators, and rulemakers). Part I is a brief conceptual analysis of the nature of the New Biology and of theories for evaluating its importance, its continued development, and its applications. A discussion of "technology assessment" is included as part of this review. Includes analyses of what would count as reasons for various uses of technology, e.g., therapeutic justifications for use of behavior control technologies. Shapiro (law, University of Southern California) provides teachers, students, and others with a comprehensive survey of bioethics and law. Material includes accounts of litigation, legislation, and administration, background materials from relevant fields, and commentaries on how law addresses the biomedical developments presented. Chapters are in sections on biomedical research law and policy, control of mind and behavior, reproductive choice, the control of genetics, death and dying, and transplantation and implantation. Each section addresses issues involving topics such as human asexual reproduction, genetic screening, biological psychiatry, and standards in bioethics. Section VIII analyzes emerging technologies that will affect concepts of personhood, identity, and responsibility.

Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgement Table of Cases The Field of Bioethics and Law Control of Mind and Behavior Genetic Control Reproductive Control Death Control Organ Transplantation

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