Bioethics and the Law, Fourth Edition

Janet Dolgin is the Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law and Co-Director of the Institute for Health Law Policy at Hofstra University. Professor Dolgin has a B.A. in philosophy from Barnard College, a Ph.D. in anthropology from Princeton University, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School. Her scholarly work combines insights from anthropology and legal scholarship. Professor Dolgin is co-director of the Hofstra Institute for Health Law and Policy. Before coming to Hofstra she taught anthropology at Columbia University and served as an associate at Davis, Polk Wardwell in Manhattan. In 1988-89 she taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Fulbright Scholar. She has also held appointments as a visiting professor of law at Cornell Law School, Boston University School of Law, and Cardozo School of Law. Professor Dolgin#39;s books include Jewish Identity and the JDL (Princeton University Press), Symbolic Anthropology (co-edited, Columbia University Press), Defining the Family (NYU Press), and Bioethics and the Law (co-authored with Lois Shepherd, Aspen Publishers). Professor Dolgin has written many articles, published in a variety of law reviews, other scholarly journals, and edited volumes. Much of this work has analyzed legal responses to shifts in the family (including those occasioned by developments in reproductive technology and by the quot;new geneticsquot;) and to shifts in the structure of health care in the United States and elsewhere. Her most recent work focuses on disparities in health and in health care. Professor Dolgin lectures widely in the United States and abroad about health care law, bioethics, and family law.