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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherWolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.
ISBN-101454878770
ISBN-139781454878773
eBay Product ID (ePID)19038366634
Product Key Features
Number of Pages1058 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameBioethics and the Law
Publication Year2018
SubjectEthics, Legal Education, Medical Law & Legislation, Health Care Delivery, Health
FeaturesNew Edition
TypeTextbook
AuthorLois L. Shepherd, Janet Dolgin
Subject AreaLaw, Medical
SeriesAspen Select Ser.
FormatBook, Other
Dimensions
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.4 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number4
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2018-035630
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal344.7304/1
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisBioethics and the Law takes a multidisciplinary approach that combines legal discussion with jurisprudential, philosophical, and sociological materials. Strong expressions of different points of view highlight debates about bioethical issues. The text underscores the need to mediate between the law's focus on broad rules and the bioethicist's concern with context and detail. Students are required to consider the ethical implications of health care as a business, face the shifting parameters of the provider/patient relationship in healthcare, and understand the role of government in designing and implementing healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare. Bioethics and the Law supplements the traditional focus of bioethics on the interest of the individual with a second focus on the socio-economic developments that shape healthcare. Connecting broad public healthcare issues to concerns of the individual patient/healthcare consumer, the text promotes understanding of unsettling and complex situations and shows the implications of bioethical developments for understandings of personhood. A helpful glossary defines basic terms and several short appendices summarize recent developments in science and technology.