Limits The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making [Hardcover]

An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians. Choice

Dworkins provocative arguments... will challenge readers who have come to accept the laws intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances. New England Journal of Medicine

Important and refreshing. Dworkins conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many.... When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake. Walter Wadlington

The ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. Rogert Dworkin argues that resort to law often overlooks the limitations of legal institutions, and he suggests a more limited use of the legal system will produce more effective resolution of bioethical dilemmas.

Preface
1. Introduction: Biomedical Advance and the American Legal System
2. Abortion: The Perils of Thinking Big
3. Sterilization: The Big Advantage of Thinking Small
4. Alternative Reproductive Techniques
5. The New Genetics
6. Death and Dying
7. Controlling Research: Administrative Law, Human Subjects, and the Power of the Purse
8. Conclusion: Living with Limites: The Value of Half a Loaf

A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1997As ethical and social dilemmas mount with an advancing technology, so also have people turned to the legal system for solutions. Dworkin examines the basis of why biomedical and healthcare decisions more often end up in courts of law. The author does a masterful job of reviewing the present US legal system when it comes to bioethical decision making. In fact, the first chapter reviews the legal, legislative, and constitutional aspects of this issue. The information is clearly presented to providlÃK