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Biomedical Ethics and the Law (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976)
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Biomedical Ethics and the Law (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1976)
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In the past few years an increasing number of colleges and
universities have added courses in biomedical ethics to their
curricula. To some extent, these additions serve to satisfy student
demands for "relevance. " But it is also true that such changes
reflect a deepening desire on the part of the academic community to
deal effectively with a host of problems which must be solved if we
are to have a health-care delivery system which is efficient,
humane, and just. To a large degree, these problems are the unique
result of both rapidly changing moral values and dramatic advances
in biomedical technology. The past decade has witnessed sudden and
conspicuous controversy over the morality and legality of new
practices relating to abortion, therapy for the mentally ill,
experimentation using human subjects, forms of genetic interven
tion, suicide, and euthanasia. Malpractice suits abound and
astronomical fees for malpractice insurance threaten the very
possibility of medical and health-care practice. Without the
backing of a clear moral consensus, the law is frequently forced
into resolving these conflicts only to see the moral issues
involved still hotly debated and the validity of existing law
further questioned. In the case of abortion, for example, the laws
have changed radically, and the widely pub licized recent
conviction of Dr. Edelin in Boston has done little to foster a
moral consensus or even render the exact status of the law beyond
reasonable question."
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