Limits
The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making
Published on 22. September 1996
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-253-33075-8 (ISBN)
Description
"An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians." -Choice
"Dworkin's provocative arguments . . . will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances." -New England Journal of Medicine
"Important and refreshing. Dworkin's 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.
"Dworkin's provocative arguments . . . will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances." -New England Journal of Medicine
"Important and refreshing. Dworkin's 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.
Reviews / Votes
"As 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 provide readers with a new insight into what is happening. Seven chapters touch all of the hot point issues in bioethics: abortion, sterilization, alternative reproduction techniques, genetic screening, death and dying, and human research; the final chapter offers conclusions from this study. Dworkin makes it clear that use of the legal system in this area is unwarranted in most cases and that there exist alternatives for decision making in difficult bioethics cases. An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students; faculty; professionals.June 1997"-R. G. McGee, Jr., Walters State Community CollegeMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
540 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33075-8 (9780253330758)
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Person
ROGER B. DWORKIN is Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington and Nelson Poynter Scholar and Director of Medical Studies at Indiana University's Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. An expert in the relationship between law and the biomedical sciences, Dworkin is co-author of a leading casebook on law and medicine.
Content
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
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