How does bioethics help judicial reasoning? -- Health care ethics committee determinations -- Institutional review board determinations -- Bioethics commission reports -- Bioethics scholarship -- Reliability of bioethics testimony : general acceptance -- Reliability of bioethics testimony : peer review and publication -- Reliability of bioethics testimony : experience
Summary
This text bridges law and bioethics and is the first book about forensic bioethics. It apprises the reader of actual and potential uses of bioethics resources in the American legal process and how those resources can be evaluated. Part I discusses the helpfulness and reliability of bioethics expert testimony. Part II explores issues attending the legal evaluation and use of bioethics resources: governmental ethics commission reports; clinical ethicists reports; ethics committee determinations and bioethicists' research interviews. Each chapter describes how judges have used and evaluate one category of resource and explores future questions
