Clear notes provide context, ensure smooth transitions between cases, and provide background information. The authors website features updates of important events and links to Internet resources. The text blends updated material from Part II of their popular survey book, Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition, with additional information specific to these topics:The duty to treat and wrongful reasons to reject patientsDiscriminationInformed consent and experimentationFiduciary dutyThe right to health careIntellectual property and the ownership of genetic discoveriesDisaster Planning and Bioterrorism PreparednessNew to the Second Edition:Ashcroft s challenge to Oregon s assisted suicide lawGonzales v. Carhart-the Supreme Court s landmark abortion decisionThe D.C. Circuit s Abigail Alliance decision, regarding the constitutionality of FDA regulationGreenberg v. Miami Children s Hospital Research Institute, regarding ownership of human tissueNew developments in organ allocation policyExpect focused coverage of bioethics and public health law-including timely cutting-edge topics from the authors who brought you Health Care Law and Ethics, Seventh Edition.

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