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Bioethics and the Law, 5th Edition takes a multidisciplinary approach to complex healthcare issues by bringing together law, jurisprudence, philosophy, and sociology. Through strong presentations of different viewpoints, the text encourages students and professionals to examine competing perspectives and better understand the ethical and legal challenges shaping modern healthcare.
The book explores the important tension between the law’s emphasis on broad rules and bioethics’ attention to individual circumstances, context, and detail. It expands the traditional individual-centered approach to bioethics by examining broader developments that influence healthcare systems, public health, and society. By connecting public healthcare issues with the concerns of individual patients and healthcare consumers, the text helps readers understand difficult situations and consider how bioethical developments influence concepts of personhood, autonomy, and healthcare relationships.
The Fifth Edition addresses major developments in contemporary healthcare, including artificial intelligence and technological innovation, the COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergencies, genetics and genomics, assisted reproduction, abortion law, and Medical Aid in Dying laws. These updates make the text valuable for understanding how rapidly changing healthcare technologies, policies, and legal frameworks create new ethical questions.
Students and professors can also explore healthcare as a business and essential service, changing provider-patient relationships, government healthcare programs such as Medicaid and Medicare, and the tensions between individual autonomy and community health. The result is a thought-provoking resource for courses and programs involving bioethics, healthcare law, health policy, medical ethics, and healthcare administration.
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