Bioethics and the Law.

• Position: Brief article - Book review

Dolgin, Janet L. & Lois L. Shepherd. Bioethics and the Law. New York: Wolters Kluwer, 2009; http://lawschool.aspenpublisher.com.

Constructed primarily to teach bioethics to law students, the book frames each issue in light of judicial, legislative and regulatory rules that may channel or limit options available to those attempting to resolve bioethical conundrums. The authors have organized materials around the development of the human life span. Parts I and II present general bioethical concepts and the bioethical issues arising before birth, in childhood, adult-hood, and old age, through...