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SciTech Book News

As a resource for librarians and other buyers of high-level books, SciTech Book News, published quarterly, cites about 2000 new books from several hundred publishers in each issue, offering concise reviews and annotations and thorough bibliographic information. The bibliography itself is arranged by subject, but this page and the other publisher pages present the material arranged by publisher.

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American Bar Association

Titles appearing in SciTech Book News — September 2007

Arrangement is by title.

Bioethical and evolutionary approaches to medicine and the law.

Keyes, W. Noel.

978-1-59031-725-9

As a member of a bioethics committee at his campus, Keyes (U. of California Medical School at Orange) traces the revolution in bioethics in the context of U.S. history, healthcare financing, and ethical standards of the American Medical Association, American Bar Association, Hospital Ethics Committees, and international approaches. After defining the scope of bioethics in medicine and the law, he reviews current philosophical/Judeo-Christian religious debates over specific issues — notably beginning and end-of-life issues. The volume includes pro and con issue summary boxes; a glossary; and appended material on current environmental crises, medicine in China and Tibet today, settlements and rulings under the False Claims Act, gene therapy, and gratuitously, a chronology of Judaism and Christianity. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Biotechnology and the law.

Ed. by Hugh B. Wellons and Eileen Smith Ewing.

978-1-59031-761-7

Legal experts specializing in biotechnology law, intellectual property, patent licensing, and related areas present a clearly written review of multiple aspects of the latest wave of better living through science and its legal ramifications. Following a primer defining biotechnology and the life cycle and regulation of biotech companies, contributors treat issues in obtaining patents, innovation financing and management, technology creation and transfer, Federal regulation regarding research, product approval, and post- approval marketing; international regulation; patient privacy; medical reimbursement; and last but not least, litigation. The final chapter lists biotechnology resources worldwide; key U.S. Federal acts, cases, and agencies; and state laws. The volume also includes a glossary, highlighted legal practice points, and sample agreements. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Toxic tort litigation.

Ed. by D. Alan Rudlin.

978-1-59031-734-1

Opening his introduction with a hypothetical scenario in which a lawyer's corporate client is inquiring about what to do about a train crash that has spilled the corporation's toxic chemicals that are now sickening members of the nearby community, a state court case has been brought that charges that one of the corporation's chemical plants has been causing severe respiratory problems in neighboring environs, and in a different trial a "transport" expert is prepared to testify that another local plant's dump site is contaminating neighbors' water wells, Rudlin (a partner with the Product Liability and Mass Tort Practice Group at Hunton & Williams LLP) declares that it's all in a day's work for the toxic tort lawyer in the United States. Together with a number of collaborators, he provides guidance for such lawyers, offering chapters that discuss theories of liability and damages in toxic tort cases, defenses to toxic tort cases, the use of scientific and medical evidence in toxic tort litigation, causation and the use of experts in toxic tort cases, case strategy and trial management issues, settlement considerations, trends in toxic tort mold litigation, trends in toxic tort lead litigation, asbestos litigation, silica litigation, food product liability litigation, pharmaceutical product liability litigation, and methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) cases. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)