Session 59: Ethics & Law

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...

Combining law with medical ethics.

A postgraduate Diploma in Medical Ethics and Law was started in October 1984 by the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King's College. It is a part-time one year course designed so as to enable students to continue with full-time employment if they wish. It is multidiscipinary and is open to all who have a first degree in a relevant discipline, for example law, philosophy, theology, medicine a...

Law, Ethics, and International Finance

Cross-border financial flows can have dramatic effects on the recipients of the money—for good or for ill. This is particularly true in countries whose economies and capital markets are underdeveloped. A relatively small inflow of foreign capital into such a country can inflate valuations on a local stock exchange or allow the government to distribute pre-election largesse in the form of subsid...

Science, ethics, and civil law.

Virtue Ethics and Animal Law

This essay explores virtue ethical concepts in the context of animal law theory and practice. For reasons discussed in the essay, virtue ethics may not, on its own, serve as an adequate foundation for general anticruelty statutes, but it may have application in those contexts in which sufficient sharing of values enables participants in legal reform to work through differences in moral commitme...