The nexus of law and biology
Subtitle: new ethical challenges
By: by Barbara Ann Hocking.
Contributors: Hocking, Barbara Ann.
Series: Law, justice and power
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company; Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780754623809
Subjects: Law and biology; Biotechnology -- Law and legislation; Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc; Bioethics
Description: Accounting for, and dealing with, biological expert evidence is an increasing concern of many lawyers and this book, which deals with juridical uses of that science, illuminates key issues for them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The perils of terminology and the saviour sibling dilemma / Barbara Ann Hocking and Eva Ryrstedt; title: I sing of arms and the doctor : what role for law when medicine is called to war? / Piero P. Giorgi, Scott Guy and Barbara Ann Hocking; title: Indigenous peoples and genetic population research : reflections on a culturally appropriate model of indigenous participant consent / Helena Kajlich; title: The SARS epidemic in Hong Kong 2003 : interplay of law, medicine and ethics / Edwin Hui; title: A proposal based on the tragedy of the commons : a museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property rights, and the public domain / Joseph Henry Vogel; title: Law, ethics and wildlife disease: an Australian perspective / Hamish McCallum; title: Environmental risk, environmental liability and the regulation of biotechnology: mediating law and biology?; title: / Christopher Rodgers; title: Legitimising regulatory decision making about genetically modified organisms under the Gene Technology Act 2000 / Charles Lawson and Richard Hindmarsh; title: The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights : bioethics, a civilising utopia in the age of globalisation? / Christian Byk; title: Conclusion : shuffling the law and biology ipod / Barbara Ann Hocking and Joseph Henry Vogel.