The Yearbook series alternates between a biennial volume tracing
recent theological discussions on topics in bioethics and a
biennial volume tracing recent regional discussions in bioethics.
Volume 4 provides a comprehensive single-volume summary of recent
international and regional developments on specific topics in
bioethics. To give uniformity to the discussions all authors were
asked to report on the following topics: new reproductive
technologies, abortion, maternal-fetal conflicts, case of severely
disabled newborns, consent of treatment and experimentation,
confidentiality, equitable access to health care, ethical concerns
raised by cost-containment measures, decisions to withhold or
withdraw life-sustaining treatment, active euthanasia, the
definition of death, organ donation and transplantation, and a
final broad category of other issues. The internationally respected
contributors report on the following 16 areas: the United States,
Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom and Ireland, France, the
Netherlands, Germany/Austria/Switzerland, Spain/Portugal/Italy,
Scandinavia, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Australia/New Zealand.
The commentators draw on three sets of resources: Statutes,
legislative proposals, and regulatory changes that directly
influence or have implications for, areas of bioethical concern;
Case law and court judgments that shape, either decisively or
suggestively, recent legal interpretations of particular issues of
areas in bioethics; Formal statements of governmentally appointed
commissions, advisory bodies, and representative professional
groups, as well as less formal statements and recommendations of
other organisations. In addition to providing timelysummaries of
recent developments, the volume offers rich and useful
bibliographical references to a wide array of documents, many of
which would be difficult for readers to learn about, given the lack
of centralized international collection of such documents. The
Yearbook will be widely consulted by all bioethicists, public
policy analysts, lawyers and theologians.
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