The Nexus of Law and Biology: New Ethical Challenges

Studying the many ways in which law and biology come together in many areas of contemporary life, The Nexus of Law and Biology: New Ethical Challenges explores the juridical uses of biological sciences to illuminate key issues and contemporary intersections serving as an invaluable reference.f

Contents: Foreword, Michael Kirby; Preface, Barbara Ann Hocking and Joseph Henry Vogel; The perils of terminology and the 'saviour sibling' dilemma, Barbara Ann Hocking and Eva Ryrstedt; 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; Indigenous peoples and genetic population research: reflections on a culturally appropriate model of indigenous participant consent, Helena Kajlich; The SARS epidemic in Hong Kong 2003: interplay of law, medicine and ethics, Edwin Hui; A proposal based on 'the tragedy of the commons': a museum of bioprospecting, intellectual property rights, and the public domain, Joseph Henry Vogel; Law, ethics and wildlife disease: an Australian perspective, Hamish McCallum; Environmental risk, environmental liability and the regulation of biotechnology: mediating law and biology?, Christopher Rodgers; Legitimising regulatory decision making about genetically modified organisms under the Gene Technology Act 2000 (Cth), Charles Lawson and Richard Hindmarsh; The Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: bioethics, a civilising Utopia in the age of globalisation?, Christian Byk; Conclusion: shuffling the law and biology iPOD, Barbara Ann Hocking and Joseph Henry Vogel; Index.