Gene mapping: using law and ethics as guides

Mapping the Issues: Public Health, Law and Ethics

Criminal Mediation as a Doctrine of Restorative Justice from the Perspective of Law and Ethics

Background: Creating the ground for peace and reconciliation through recourse to arbitration has been one of the common methods of litigation that is rooted in ethics. In the criminal justice system, judicial and police officials are the reference for investigation, inquiry and investigation. The sovereign and their representatives have the exclusive competence and no other person has the autho...

Ethics, law, and pain management as a patient right.

Ethical and legal considerations in pain management typically relate to 2 issues. The first refers to pain management as a human right. The second involves the nature of the patient-physician relationship as it relates to pain management. Although pain physicians often like to think of pain management as a human right, it remains difficult to support this position as a point of law or as a matt...

Doctors as pawns? Law and medical ethics at Guantánamo Bay.

This symposium poses the question: “Guantanamo Bay: How should we respond?” When I thought about this question, it occurred to me that we talk about “responding” in a number of ways. We respond in games, such as chess or bridge. But the detention policy of the Bush Administration (“the Administration”) is not a game—certainly not from the perspectives of those who are being (or have been) detai...

Biomedical Ethics and the Law

table of lod scores for genes linked to the 22 pairs of autosomes and the Xchromosome, there are a discussion of how cytological markers can be used and a bibliography which provides access to the important literature about cytological markers. Data are given for physical assignments, including both largest and smallest regions of overlap reference numbers to the relevant literature. An alphabe...