Biomedical ethics and the law / [electronic resource] edited by James M. Humber and Robert F. Almeder.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : bioethics as a discipline / Daniel Callahan -- Abortion. Roe v. Wade. Abortion and the law / Baruch A. Brody. A defense of abortion / Judith Javis Thomson. The morality of abortion / Richard B. Brandt. Abortion : the avoidable moral dilemma / James M. Humber -- Mental illness. Psychiatric intervention / Leon Eisenberg. The myth of mental illness / Thomas Szasz. Mental health and mental illness : some problems of definition and concept formation / Ruth Macklin. Involuntary mental hospitalization : a crime against humanity / Thomas Szasz. Psychiatrists and the adversary process / David L. Bazelon -- Human experimentation. Ethics and clinical research / Henry K. Beecher. Scientific investigations on man : a medical research worker's viewpoint / Michael Shimkin. Philosophical reflections on experimenting with human subjects / Hans Jonas. The moral justification for research using human subjects / Arthur J. Dyck and Herbert W. Richardson. Realities of patient consent to medical research / John Fletcher. NIH guidelines on research with human subjects -- Human genetics. Ethical issues arising from the possible uses of genetic knowledge / Tracy M. Sonneborn. Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the human right to life / Leon R. Kass. Implications of prenatal diagnosis for the quality of, and right to, human life : society as a standard / Robert S. Morison. Practical and ethical problems in human genetics / Kurt Hirschhorn. Reproductive rights and genetic disease / Lawrence P. Ulrich. On justifications for coercive genetic control / Thomas L. Beauchamp. Legal rights and moral rights / Alexander M. Capron. Privacy and genetic information / Herbert A. Lubs -- Dying. The problems in prolongation of life / Jonas Robitscher. The allocation of exotic medical lifesaving therapy / Nicholas Rescher. Life and the right to life / Henry David Aiken. Dying / Robert S. Morison. A statutory definition of the standards for determining human death : an appraisal and a proposal / Alexander M. Capron and Leon R. Kass. Death : process or event? / Barbara MacKinnon.