The Accountability of Bioethics Committees and Consultants.

Should bioethics committees and consultants be regulated and held accountable for their advice? If so, how and to whom should they be held accountable?

This book examines why and how bioethics committees and consultants should be held accountable for their advice. Noting the evergrowing use of bioethics committees and consultants by hospitals, physicians, families, and the courts--with life and death decisions in the balance--the author argues that mechanisms which assure accountability and encourage a uniformly fair process of...