Awards

• Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 1997.
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997
• Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 1997.

Overview

""An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians."" —Choice ""Dworkin's provocative arguments . . . will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances."" —New England Journal of Medicine ""Important and refreshing. Dworkin's conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many. . . . When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake."" —Walter Wadlington The ethical and social dilemmas associated with abortion, sterilization, assisted reproduction, genetics, death and dying, and biomedical research have led many to turn to the legal system for solutions. Rogert Dworkin argues that resort to law often overlooks the limitations of legal institutions, and he suggests a more limited use of the legal system will produce more effective resolution of bioethical dilemmas.

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Reviews

Important and refreshing. Dworkin's conclusions regarding the limited role of law (and especially legislation) may come as a surprise to many... When popular and political views are almost evenly divided, looking to legislation for a solution is a mistake. Walter Wadlington, James Madison Professor of Law, University of Virginia An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians. Choice Dworkin's provocative arguments ... will challenge readers who have come to accept the law's intrusion as a necessary response to biomedical advances. New England Journal of Medicine

As ethical and social dilemmas mount with an advancing technology, so also have people turned to the legal system for solutions. Dworkin examines the basis of why biomedical and healthcare decisions more often end up in courts of law. The author does a masterful job of reviewing the present US legal system when it comes to bioethical decision making. In fact, the first chapter reviews the legal, legislative, and constitutional aspects of this issue. The information is clearly presented to provide readers with a new insight into what is happening. Seven chapters touch all of the hot point issues in bioethics: abortion, sterilization, alternative reproduction techniques, genetic screening, death and dying, and human research; the final chapter offers conclusions from this study. Dworkin makes it clear that use of the legal system in this area is unwarranted in most cases and that there exist alternatives for decision making in difficult bioethics cases. An excellent resource for entry-level courses on bioethics for health care practitioners, law students, and physicians. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students; faculty; professionals. -R. G. McGee, Jr., Walters State Community College, Choice, June 1997

Author Information

ROGER B. DWORKIN is Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law–Bloomington and Nelson Poynter Scholar and Director of Medical Studies at Indiana University's Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions. An expert in the relationship between law and the biomedical sciences, Dworkin is co-author of a leading casebook on law and medicine.

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