Standard of care the law of American bioethics
American law, not philosophy or medicine, is the major force shaping American bioethics. This is both because law at its best fosters individual rights, equality, and justice, and because violation of the legal duty or "standard of care" a physician owes a patient can lead to a malpractice...
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New York :
Oxford University Press
1993
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46252630*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The U.S. Constitution and Bioethics. 1. Brave New Medicine: Restricting Doctor-Patient Conversations. 2. Trend Surfing: The War on Drugs and Prisoners. 3. She's Going to Die: The Tragedy of Angela Carder. 4. The Supreme Court, Privacy, and Abortion. 5. The Short, Happy Life of Commercial Surrogacy. 6. A French Homunculus in a Tennessee Court. 7. The Insane Root Takes Reason Prisoner: The Supreme Court and the Right to Die. 8. In Thunder, Lightning, or in Rain: In the Laboratory of the States
- II. Private Sector Bioethics. 9. Not Saints but Healers: Legal Duties of Physicians in the AIDS Epidemic. 10. Faith (Healing), Hope, and Charity at the FDA: The Politics of AIDS Drug Trials. 11. Mapping the Human Genome and the Meaning of Monster Mythology. 12. Outrageous Fortune: Selling Other People's Cells
- III. Public Sector Bioethics. 13. The Politics of Fetal Tissue Transplants. 14. From Canada with Love: Death and Organ Donation. 15. Death and the Magic Machine: Consent to the Artificial Heart.
- 16. Rationing Medical Care. 17. Minerva v. National Health Agency, 53 U.S. 2d 333 (2020). 18. Siamese Twins: Killing One to Save the Other. 19. Killing Machines. 20. Health Law and Bioethics at the Millennium: Concluding Thoughts and a Proposal.
