This book provides a rich body of materials for courses in bioethics and law. Primary legal sources, including
judicial opinions, statutes, regulations and institutional policies, will give students insight into the strategies
used by courts, legislatures, agencies and health care providers in addressing bioethics issues. The book also
draws from interdisciplinary research in medicine, ethics, and law to provide students diverse critiques of legal
and public policy issues in bioethics. Materials in this text are tightly edited and designed to create high quality
and focused classroom discussion. In particular, the text includes classroom tested problems that will engage students
more deeply on each issue. In addition, notes and questions in each section provide information and queries that
will broaden the students understanding, and bibliographical notes will assist students who want to do more advanced
work on particular subjects. Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics begins with accessible introductory material
on how to do ethics analysis. It then provides separate chapters on: Reproduction and Birth; Legal, Social, and
Ethical Issues in Genetics; Defining Death; Life and Death Decisions; Regulation of Research Involving Human Subjects;
Distributive Justice and Organ Transplantation; and Public Health. This sixth edition includes a selection of new
problems; completely updated notes and bibliographies; and new or expanded treatment of issues that have come to
prominence since the previous edition.