Product Description

Bioethics and Public Health Law, Second Edition, integrates public health and bioethics into a focused casebook that is ideal for Health Law courses. Clear notes provide context, ensure smooth transitions between cases, and provide background information. The authors website features updates of important events and links to Internet resources. The text blends updated material from Part II of their popular survey book, Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition, with additional information specific to these topics: The duty to treat and wrongful reasons to reject patients. Discrimination. Informed consent and experimentation. Fiduciary duty. The right to health care. Intellectual property and the ownership of genetic discoveries. Disaster Planning and Bioterrorism Preparedness

ISBN 9780735570047Edition 02Binding Paper