Law and Bioethics: An Introduction.

Menikoff, Jerry. Law and Bioethics: An Introduction. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2001.

While the American legal system has played an important role in shaping the field of bioethics, Law & Bioethics is the first book on the subject designed to be accessible to readers with little or no legal background. Detailing how the legal analysis of an issue in bioethics often differs from the "ethical" analysis, the book covers such topics as abortion, surrogacy, genetics, cloning, informed consent, malpractice, refusal of care, physician-assisted suicide, and organ transplantation.

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