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The role of law in the development of American bioethics.

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: In the United States, interest in bioethics increased significantly during the 1970s, as new technologies and changing social mores combined to focus attention on contentious issues in medical research and treatment. New legal developments, both statutory and case based, also began to address reproductive freedom, informed consent to research and treatment, organ transplantation, end of life issues, and other matters. Since the 1970s, the law has relied on ethical principles such as autonomy and respect for persons; bioethics has relied on the law to implement and institutionalize bioethical concerns into the nation's social fabric.

Source: PubMed

DOI: 10.3917/jib.204.0073

Author: Mark A Rothstein

Institution: University of Louisville

Language: English

Topic: Ethics and bioethics in healthcare

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Award: Center for Environmental Genomics and Integrative Biology