Legal and ethical issues in biomedical engineering

Author: Guo Zili
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Publish Date: 2002-05-01
Features: This book analyzes the impact of modern medicine on our daily lives with a cautious and rational approach, covering topics ranging from the definition of death to human attitudes toward death, as well as the influence of organ transplantation, gene therapy, and assisted reproductive technologies on future human development. The book examines the challenges posed by modern medicine in the realms of ethics and law, emphasizing the importance of using legal means to guide biomedical technologies. It delves into issues such as the standard of death, human attitudes toward death, organ transplantation, gene therapy, the impact of assisted reproductive technologies on future human development, as well as related legal and ethical questions concerning human experimentation and induced abortion. The author is a professor at the Law School of Peking University.