Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (Carolina Academic Press Law Casebook Series)

This book presents balanced coverage of the four major areas of health law -- health care organization and finance; the obligations of health care professionals and institutions to patients; bioethics; and public health law. For each of these topics, it presents a carefully edited collection of cases, statutes, and readings. The book includes sources from English-speaking, common-law jurisdictions; continental Europe and Japan; and developing countries. Whenever possible, the readings are by authors from the countries whose laws are discussed. Also, most sources are truly comparative; that is, they analyze the laws of not just one, but of several jurisdictions.

This is not just another book about comparative health policy; rather, it focuses uniquely on comparative health law -- how law, legal systems, and legal institutions influence health care recipients, professionals, institutions, and systems.

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost is the Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. He received his J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, and has published several books and numerous scholarly articles on various aspects of health law.