Bioethics and Public Health Law (Coursebook Series)

<b>Bioethics and Public Health Law, Second Edition</b>, integrates public health and bioethics into a focused casebook that is ideal for Health Law courses. Clear notes provide context, ensure smooth transitions between cases, and provide background information. The authors’ website at <a target="_blank" href="www.health-law.org"> www.health-law.org</a> features updates of important events and links to Internet resources. The text blends updated material from Part II of their popular survey book, <b>Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition</b>, with additional information specific to these topics: <ul><li> The duty to treat and wrongful reasons to reject patients </li><li> Discrimination </li><li> Informed consent and experimentation </li><li> Fiduciary duty </li><li> The right to health care </li><li> Intellectual property and the ownership of genetic discoveries </li><li> Disaster Planning and Bioterrorism Preparedness </li></ul><b>New to the Second Edition:</b><ul><li> Ashcroft’s challenge to Oregon’s assisted suicide law </li><li><i>Gonzales v. Carhart</i>—the Supreme Court’s landmark abortion decision </li><li> The D.C. Circuit’s Abigail Alliance decision, regarding the constitutionality of FDA regulation </li><li><i>Greenberg v. Miami Children’s Hospital Research Institute</i>, regarding ownership of human tissue </li><li> New developments in organ allocation policy </li></ul> Expect focused coverage of bioethics and public health law—including timely cutting-edge topics—from the authors who brought you <b>Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition</b>. <p></p><p></p>