Mediation sought on biotechnology disputes

Mediation in Environmental Disputes

Mediation is a type of third party intervention in environmental and other kinds of disputes. Its characteristics – voluntary participation and agreement, confidentiality of exchanges among parties, the search for mutually satisfactory solutions – are well suited for the multi-party, complex context of environmental conflicts. Mediation is often used concurrently with other modes of conflict ma...

Mediation: an approach to intractable disputes between parents and paediatricians.

Mediation of Marital Disputes Before It Is Too Late: A Proposal for Premarital Contract Provisions for Mediation of Disputes Within the Intact Family and at Separation

The practice of mediation to resolve clinical, bioethical, and medical malpractice disputes.

Mediation is a voluntary process whereby a neutral and impartial third party-t-he mediator--is present to facilitate communication and negotiation between the disputing parties so that amicable settlements can be agreed. Being confidential and non-adversarial in nature, the mediation process and skills are particularly applicable in clinical practice to facilitate challenging communications fol...

Whose body is it anyway? Disputes over body tissue in a biotechnology age.

In this changing context, developments in the removal, storage, and transformation of human tissue have created new opportunities for medical research and biotechnological applications that have increased demands for tissue. Body tissue has become a part of an international market. For example, a company has obtained American and European patents on the process of extracting stem cells from cor...