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Bioethics and Public Health Law, Fifth Edition

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Authors
  • David Orentlicher
  • Mary Anne Bobinski
  • I. Glenn Cohen
  • Mark A. Hall
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Book length
648 pages
Publication Date
2024-09-15
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Description
Table of contents
Preface

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In the Fifth Edition of Bioethics and Public Health Law, financial and ethical issues are integrated into a concise and engaging treatment. This book is based on Part I “The Provider and the Patient” and Part II “The Patient, Provider, and the State,” from Health Care Law and Ethics, Tenth Edition, and adds material on organ transplantation, research ethics, and other topics. The complex relationship between patients, providers, the state, and public health institutions are explored through high-interest cases, informative notes, and compelling problems.  

New to the Fifth Edition:
  • Thoroughly revised coverage of:
    • Reproductive rights and justice
    • Public health law
  • Extensive coverage of issues relating to COVID-19
  • Supreme Court decisions on abortion
  • Discussion of emerging topics, such as:
    • Restrictions on medical abortion, interstate travel for abortion, and conflicts with EMTALA
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Cutting-edge reproductive technologies (such as mitochondrial replacement techniques, uterus transplants, and In Vitro Gametogenesis)
    • Changes to organ allocation rules and attempts to revise “brain death” and the “dead donor rule” in organ transplantation
    • Religious liberty questions that emerged in public health cases during the COVID-19 pandemic
Benefits for instructors and students:
  • Comprehensive yet concise, this casebook covers all aspects of bioethics and public health law.
  • Integrates public policy and ethics issues from a relational perspective.
  • Clear notes provide smooth transitions between cases and background information.
  • Companion website, www.health-law.org, provides background materials, updates of important events, additional relevant topics, and links to other resources on the Internet.
  • The book includes cases and materials on bioethics not found in the parent book, such as:
    • Organ transplantation and allocation
    • Research ethics
    • Gene patents
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Table of Contents
Summary of Contents

Contents 
Preface

CHAPTER 1
Introduction 

CHAPTER 2
The Treatment Relationship

CHAPTER 3 
The Right and “Duty” to Die

CHAPTER 4
Organ Transplantation and the Control Over Use and Allocation of Body Parts 

CHAPTER 5
The Regulation of Reproduction 

CHAPTER 6
Public Health Law 

Glossary of Organizational Terms and Acronyms
Table of Cases 
Index 
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About the authors
David Orentlicher

David Orentlicher is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law. He also is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine. Before coming to Indiana University, he served as the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the American Medical Association, where he drafted ethical guidelines for the medical profession on a wide range of issues. Dr. Orentlicher is a member of the American Law Institute and from 1992-1995, he served on the founding board of the American Association of Bioethics.

He received his M.D. and J.D. degrees from Harvard, was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked for the Hon. Alvin B. Rubin, U.S. Court of Appeals for Fifth Circuit. He practiced medicine and law each for approximately two years. He has authored or co-authored numerous articles in leading legal and medical journals, and has served on a variety of task forces on ethical and legal issues in medicine. He has most recently written about health care reform, cost containment, and assisted reproduction. During the 1997-98 academic year, he was the Visiting DeCamp Professor in Bioethics at Princeton University, and from November 2002 to November 2008, he served three terms as a state representative in the Indiana General Assembly.

Mary Anne Bobinski

Mary Anne Bobinski is Dean and Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Previously, she was John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Law and Director of the Health Law Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. She received her B.A. and J.D. degrees, both summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo and her LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She served as a judicial law clerk for Judge Max Rosenn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Bobinski teaches Torts, the basic health law courses, and various advanced courses in the health law field.

Her research interests include health care financing, legal aspects of HIV infection, and reproductive health issues. She is a co-author of another leading law school casebook, AIDS Policy and Law, and has authored a number of law review articles and book chapters on health law topics. Professor Bobinski is an active participant in national, state, and local service activities. She is a member of the ABA Section on Legal Education Curriculum Committee and the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Curriculum and Research.

Professor Bobinski also is the past-chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care and is a past-board member of the Texas Human Rights Foundation and the Bar Association for Human Rights of Houston. She has given over 100 talks to national, state, and local audiences on health care topics ranging from health care finance, to medical malpractice, to legal aspects of e-health.

Glenn Cohen

Glenn Cohen is one of the world's leading experts on the intersection of bioethics and the law, as well as health law. Prior to becoming a professor, he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office) in the U.S. Supreme Court.

His current projects relate to big data, health information technologies, mobile health, reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, and medical tourism. He is the author of more than 100 articles and chapters, and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics), and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times and Washington Post. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 12 books.

He was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2012-2013 year and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. He is also a Fellow at the Hastings Center. He recently finished his role as one of the key co-investigators on the multi-million dollar Football Players Health Study at Harvard, which is committed to improving the health of NFL players. He co-leads the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center. He also leads the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL). He is one of three editors-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences (Oxford University Press) and serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics and on the Ethics Committee for the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG).

Mark A. Hall

Mark A. Hall is Professor of Law and Public Health at Wake Forest University School of Law and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. He is also an Associate in Management at the Babcock School of Management, all of which are located in Winston-Salem, NC. Prof. Hall received his law degree with highest honors at the University of Chicago and was on the faculty at Arizona State University before assuming his present position. He has also completed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Finance Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.

Prof. Hall specializes in health care law and public policy, with a focus on economic, regulatory, and corporate issues. His present research interests include health care reform, health care rationing, managed competition, integrated delivery systems, and insurance market reform. He is the author or editor of ten books on health care law and policy, including the 4-volume series Health Care Corporate Law (Aspen Publishing) and Making Medical Spending Decisions (Oxford University Press).
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2024-09-15
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
648
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