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Bioethics law

LAWS3150 Bioethics and the Law

Australian law regulates scientific techniques used in bioethics. Laws regulating provision of medical techniques inevitably raise complex and controversial questions about societal and ethical values. Students will be required to critically examine ethical theories and principles, case law, statutes, treaties, and the perspective of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and to consider whether the ethical stance represented in such law requires law reform.

About this guide

This guide was created by a librarian and contains some key resources you can refer to throughout the course.  Items have been included for their relevance but do not make up an exhaustive list of all that is available to support this area of study. See also our Ethics guide. 

Resources

All books, print and electronic, can be found by searching FiNDit from the Library homepage. Search by title if you know what you are looking for, or alternatively try keywords. Refine your search to Book/eBook using the filters on the results screen.

Here are just a few of the bioethics titles available in our collection.

 

Legal encyclopedias are a useful starting place to begin your research. They identify key legal principles and will refer to relevant cases and legislation. Heavily footnoted, you can follow the links to other relevant sources.

Halsbury's Laws of Australia (Lexis+)

280 - Medicine (includes tissue transplantation, human reproductive technology & surrogacy)

The Laws of Australia (Westlaw)

20.12 - Medical technology