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Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law
Title:
Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law
Author:
Keyes, W. Noel.
ISBN:
9781590317259
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : Committee on Biotechnology, American Bar Association, c2007.
Physical Description:
lvii, 1174 p. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.