Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law / by W. Noel Keyes.

Chicago : Committee on Biotechnology, American Bar Association, [2007], ©2007.

lvii, 1,174 pages ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Drawing lines in bioethics: medicine and the law -- The creation and evolution of the universe and humankind -- Religious sources, their restrictions, and their possible bioethical standards -- Some differences and difficulties with science and philosophy in the search for bioethical standards -- Autonomy, responsibility, and informed consent -- Ethics, bioethics and ethics committees -- To conceive or not to conceive: the ethics of family planning and birth control -- Infertility, impotence, and cloning -- The choice of abortion -- Fetal abuse and severely defective newborns -- Restrictions on the sources and allocation of organ transplants -- The right to dignity in the dying process -- Improvements needed in the twenty-first century right to die -- End-of-life choices of terminal patients -- Bioethics on genetics superseding the human genome project.

Includes bibliographical references and index.