Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
Winter 2008
ISSN
1073-1105
Publisher
American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics
Language
en-US
Abstract
Thanks to a series of storms sweeping up the eastern seaboard for three days, I found myself with four fivehour flight delays and two completely unrelated books in my briefcase. One of the books was the second edition of Professor Tim Jost's Readings in Comparative Health Law & Ethics,' which I was reviewing for this publication. The second was Daniel Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness,2 which someone - no doubt thinking I could use a little wisdom on the subject - had given me for my birthday. I did not mind the delays, for they gave me time to dig in and start writing this review. They also provided the occasion to dip into a totally different subject matter for diversion. Or so I thought. Instead, the more I read of Gilbert's theories about "our capacity to imagine the future, and how much we will [or often won't] like it when we get there, '3 the more I began to see parallels with Jost's impressive comparative work on health law and bioethics.
Recommended Citation
Frances H. Miller,
Reviews in Medical Ethics: Stumbling on Options: A Review of Readings in Comparative Health Law & Ethics
,
in
36
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
851
(2008).
Available at:
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2008.00343.x
