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title	:	Limits : The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making Medical Ethics Series
author	:	Dworkin, Roger B.
publisher	:	Indiana University Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0253330750
print isbn13	:	9780253330758
ebook isbn13	:	9780585259666
language	:	English
subject	Medical laws and legislation--United States, Genetic engineering--Law and legislation--United States, Bioethics--United States.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	KF3821.D87 1996eb
ddc	:	344.73/041
subject	:	Medical laws and legislation--United States, Genetic engineering--Law and legislation--United States, Bioethics--United States.

Page i Limits

Page ii Medical Ethics Series David H. Smith and Robert M. Veatch, series editors Norman L. Cantor. Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with Dignity Norman L. Cantor. Legal Frontiers of Death and Dying Arthur L. Caplan. If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas? And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care Cynthia B. Cohen, ed. Casebook on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying Cynthia B. Cohen, ed. Commissioned by the National Advisory Board on Ethics in Reproduction. New Ways of Making Babies: The Case of Egg Donation Larry Gostin, ed. Surrogate Motherhood: Politics and Privacy Christine Grady. The Search for an AIDS Vaccine: Ethical Issues in the Development and Testing of a Preventive HIV Vaccine A Report by the Hastings Center. Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying Paul Lauritzen. Pursuing Parenthood: Ethical Issues in Assisted Reproduction Joanne Lynn, M.D., ed. By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water, Expanded Edition William F. May. The Patient's Ordeal Richard W. Momeyer. Confronting Death S. Kay Toombs, David Barnard, and Ronald Carson, eds. Chronic Illness: From Experience to Policy Robert M. Veatch. The Patient as Partner: A Theory of Human-Experimentation Ethics Robert M. Veatch. The Patient-Physician Relation: The Patient as Partner, Part 2

Page iii Limits The Role of the Law in Bioethical Decision Making Roger B. Dworkin INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Bloomington and Indianapolis

Page iv 1996 by Roger B. Dworkin All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dworkin, Roger B. Limits: the role of the law in bioethical decision making/Roger B. Dworkin. p. cm.(Medical ethics series) Includes index ISBN 0-253-33075-0 (cl: alk. paper) 1. Medical laws and legislationUnited States. 2. Genetic engineeringLaw and legislationUnited States. 3. Bioethics United States. I. Title. II. Series. KF3821.D87 1996 344.73'041dc20 [347.30441] 95-50697 1 2 3 4 5 01 00 99 98 97 96

Page v This book is dedicated to my mother, Irene S. Figilis, with love, gratitude, and respect.

Page vii Contents Preface ix One Introduction: Biomedical Advance and the American Legal System 1 Two Abortion: The Perils of Thinking Big 19 Three Sterilization: The Big Advantage of Thinking Small 54 Four Alternative Reproductive Techniques 61 Five The New Genetics 85

Page viii Six Death and Dying 109 Seven Controlling Research: Administrative Law, Human Subjects, and the Power of the Purse 147 Eight Conclusion: Living with LimitsThe Value of Half a Loaf 164 Notes 173 Index 197

Page ix Preface Writing a book is among the more social of solitary activities. This book could not have been completed without the contributions of a great many other persons.

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