| Preface | 6 |
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| Contents | 9 |
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| Introduction | 10 |
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| 1. Law’s Receptivity to Bioethics | 10 |
| 2. Bioethics’ Eclecticism | 12 |
| 3. The Approach of This Book | 15 |
| Endnotes | 17 |
| How Does Bioethics Help Judicial Reasoning? | 21 |
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| 1. How Can Bioethics Testimony Help? | 22 |
| 2. When Is Bioethics Testimony Unhelpful? | 27 |
| 3. How Can Bioethics Briefs Help? | 36 |
| 4. When Are Briefs Unhelpful? | 40 |
| 5. Summary | 42 |
| Endnotes | 43 |
| Health Care Ethics Committee Determinations | 49 |
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| 1. HEC Determinations and Adjudicative Fact | 50 |
| 2. HEC Determinations as Legislative Facts | 51 |
| 3. HEC Determinations as Normative Fact | 55 |
| 4. Summary | 61 |
| Endnotes | 62 |
| Institutional Review Board Determinations | 65 |
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| 1. IRB Determinations as Normative Fact | 67 |
| 2. Normative Weight Conditioned on Legal Compliance | 71 |
| 3. IRB Determinations as Legislative Fact | 74 |
| 4. IRB Determinations as Adjudicative Facts | 75 |
| 5. Summary | 77 |
| Endnotes | 78 |
| Bioethics Commission Reports | 81 |
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| 1. Reports Provide Adjudicative Facts | 82 |
| 2. Reports Provide Legislative Facts | 85 |
| 3. Representational Versus Rhetorical Uses | 88 |
| 4. Reports Provide Normative Facts | 90 |
| 5. Approaches to Moral Pluralism | 94 |
| 6. Summary | 97 |
| Endnotes | 98 |
| Bioethics Scholarship | 106 |
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| 1. Introduction | 106 |
| 2. Compelling the Scholar | 109 |
| 3. Protective Orders | 116 |
| 4. Compensation | 117 |
| 5. Summary | 119 |
| Endnotes | 120 |
| Reliability of Bioethics Testimony | 128 |
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| 1. Bioethics’ Eclecticism | 128 |
| 2. Reliability of Ethics Strands | 129 |
| 3. Steps in Generally Accepted Approaches to Ethical Reasoning | 131 |
| 4. Summary | 140 |
| Endnotes | 140 |
| Reliability of Bioethics Testimony | 144 |
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| 1. Peer Review as a Default Standard | 144 |
| 2. Limits of Peer Review | 154 |
| 3. Summary | 157 |
| Endnotes | 157 |
| Reliability of Bioethics Testimony | 161 |
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| 1. Bioethics Experience and Skills | 161 |
| 2. Skills and the Task at Hand | 163 |
| 3. Steps in Reaching a Conclusion | 166 |
| 4. Reliable Application of the Skill | 170 |
| 5. Another Criterion and Other Skills | 171 |
| 6. Summary | 176 |
| Endnotes | 177 |
| Conclusion | 181 |