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Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics - 9th Edition - Elizabeth Pendo
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Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics 9th Edition Elizabeth Pendo ISBN 9781684677146
Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics engages students with the intersection of law and bioethics through a rich mix of legal and interdisciplinary materials. The book incorporates judicial opinions, statutes, regulations, and policies from health care organizations and professional associations, offering insight into how courts, legislatures, administrative agencies, and health care institutions address bioethical issues. Drawing from interdisciplinary research, it provides critical perspectives on legal and policy debates, and includes carefully edited, classroom-tested problems to promote focused, high-quality discussion.
The text opens with an introductory chapter that lays the foundation for understanding the relationship between law and ethics. It presents a practical method for ethical analysis, surveys influential ethical theories—including foundational theories, principlism, natural law, and critical race, feminist, and disability frameworks—and examines the intersection of law and ethics through examples such as conscience and informed consent. The chapter also foregrounds issues of justice and equity, which resonate throughout the book.
Chapter 2, Discrimination and Unequal Treatment in Health Care, explores disparities in access and care. This chapter has been significantly expanded to include new cases on sex discrimination in reproductive and gender-affirming care, discriminatory insurance design, and conflicts arising from religious objections to nondiscrimination mandates.
The Reproduction and Birth chapter is updated with recent developments in abortion, contraception, and assisted reproductive technology (ART). It also addresses reproductive justice concerns, such as coerced sterilizations, denial of ART, and forced medical interventions, highlighting the disproportionate impact on marginalized populations.
Several chapters focus on health care decision-making in life-and-death contexts. The Organ Transplantation and Determination of Death chapter covers the framework for organ transplantation, updated protocols for organ retrieval after treatment withdrawal, and current debates over the brain death standard. Two chapters on end-of-life decisions examine the legal and ethical norms for withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and the status of medically assisted dying.
The Regulation of Research Involving Human Subjects chapter addresses federal oversight under the Common Rule and the influence of state law, including issues involving biobanks, public health research, and research with children.
Finally, the expanded Population Health and Public Health chapter explores the balance between individual rights and community health, incorporating key developments from the COVID-19 pandemic and the ethical and legal challenges it raised.
Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics 9th Edition Elizabeth Pendo ISBN 9781684677146, 978-1684677146 & 9781685612474
Authors
Elizabeth Pendo
Brietta R. Clark
Erin C. Fuse Brown
Robert Gatter
Elizabeth Y. McCuskey
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- ISBN
- 9781684677146
- Edition
- 9th Edition
- Publisher
- West Academic
- Publication Date
- February 2026
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