Research Catalog

Title

Strange bedfellows : how medical jurispridence has influenced medical ethics and medical practice / Ben A. Rich.

Author

Rich, Ben A.

Publication

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, c2001.

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Description

xvii, 196 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"The relationship between law and bioethics and the influence of both on medical research and clinical practice is a topic that is often mentioned but rarely subjected to sustained critical analysis. This book considers a number of issues in medicine in which the influence of the law has been most profound and positive, including informed consent, advance directives, constitutional liberties and privacy, standards for pain management and end-of-life care"--Back cover.

Subject

• Practice Patterns, Physicians'
• Ethics, Medical
• Ethics, Clinical
• Jurisprudence
• Legislation, Medical
• Jurisprudence
• Medical ethics
• Medical jurisprudence > United States
• Medical laws and legislation > United States
• Ethics, Medical
• Medical jurisprudence
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Medical ethics and medical jurisprudence: the conceptual landscape -- A historical perspective on the relationship between law and morality -- law and the physician-patient relationship: informed consent -- From autonomy to prospective autonomy: advance directives in bioethics, law and public policy -- Constitutional liberty and privacy: the Supreme Court and the physician-patient relationship -- The dance of intimacy: abortion, medical ethics and the constitution -- Death, dying and the responsibility of the ethical physician -- The new synergy -- bioethics in court -- Lessons learned and prospects for the future of medical jurisprudence and bioethics.

ISBN

0306466651

OCLC

48570486

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library