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Bioethics and the Law, Fifth Edition

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Authors
  • Janet L. Dolgin
  • Ashley R. Hurst
  • Lois L. Shepherd
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784 pages
Publication Date
2024-02-01
Edition
Fifth Edition
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Table of contents
Preface

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The Fifth Edition of Bioethics 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. Bioethics and the Law supplements the traditional focus of bioethics on the interest of the individual with a second focus on the broader 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.

New to the Fifth Edition:

  • New coauthor Ashley Hurst joins for this edition
  • Presentation of technological innovations (e.g., artificial intelligence [AI]) and their implications for healthcare
  • Expansive discussion of COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergencies
  • Updated discussions of genetics and genomics and the implications for society and law
  • Innovations in assisted reproduction
  • Changes in abortion law
  • Updated discussion of Medical Aid in Dying laws
Professors and students will benefit from:
  • Considering the ethical implications of health care as a business, an essential service based in professional expertise and a set of significant relationships
  • Facing the shifting parameters of the provider/patient relationship in healthcare
  • Understanding the role of government in designing and implementing healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare
  • Exploring the conflicts between a focus on individual autonomy and on the health of communities
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About the authors
Janet Dolgin
Hofstra University

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'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 Publishing).

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 "new genetics") 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.
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Edition
Fifth Edition
Publication date
2024-02-01
Copyright Year
2024
Pages
784
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543847321
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798889068822
Subject
Health Law
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