Medical ethics and professional conduct Books
The University of Chicago Press Ethics by Committee
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In Ethics by Committee: A History of Reasoning Together about Medicine, Science, Society, and the State the historian Noortje Jacobs charts the Dutch contribution to the emergence of our contemporary international regime of ethical regulation in which governmental committees have tried and often failed to regulate and implement ethical research reviews . . . Jacobs’s skill as a writer is clear in her ability to guide the reader through the administrative labyrinth of late twentieth-century Dutch science governance while always relating this back to national debates in the medical and popular press." * Isis *"Jacobs’ history of the Dutch research ethics committees is an impressive, conceptually aware discussion of policy debates, a socio-political analysis with focus on institutions, committees and public discourses..." * Low Countries Historical Review *"An important new contribution to the history of bioethics and research ethics. Jacobs does more than simply fill a historiographical gap: the focus on the Netherlands allows her to convincingly argue that bioethics and research ethics do not have a singular history, and that we need to examine the historically specific interplay between medicine, society, and the state if we want to explain developments in specific times and places. Her insights and conclusions significantly add to our understanding of the mechanisms and schools of thought in medicine, philosophy, and politics that caused research ethics and bioethics more broadly to become global phenomena in recent decades." -- Duncan Wilson, University of ManchesterTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Note on Translations Introduction Part I: Internal Control Chapter 1. A Moral Obligation to Medical Progress Chapter 2. A Moral Need for Epistemic Filters Part II: External Control Chapter 3. Medical Ethics in a Modern Society Chapter 4. Experimenting with Humans Part III: Public Accountability Chapter 5. The Contested Rise of the Ethical Expert Chapter 6. Public Governance in a Pluralistic Society Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Reasons of Conscience
Book SynopsisHow could the Holocaust have happened? And how can Germans make sure that it will never happen again? This title considers bioethical debates surrounding embryonic stem cell research in Germany at the turn of twenty-first century, highlighting how the country's ongoing struggle to come to terms with its past informs the decisions it makes today.Trade Review"Without a doubt, this is the finest ethnography of German political life and the inner workings of the German state that I have read - it is brilliantly attentive both to the cultural and historical legacies that shape German politics as well as to the realpolitik and complex alliances of its parliamentary statecraft." (Dominic Boyer, Rice University)"
£31.35
The University of Chicago Press Intensive Care Medical Ethics and the Medical
Book SynopsisIn riveting case studies, Robert Zussman describes how medical decisions in ICUs are considered and reconsidered, made and remade, negotiated and renegotiated. He concentrates on the practice of medical ethics, on the ways in which right and wrong are interpreted and used in the ward--how definitions of right and wrong emerge from the social situations of patients, families, doctors, and nurses and from the workings of hospitals and the courts. His book is a portrait of the way careful planning is undermined by the unpredictability of illness and the persistence of self-interest, by high principle and curious compromise.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1: Medical Ethics and the Medical Profession 2: Intensive Care Pt. 1: The Moral Order of Intensive Care 3: The Patient 4: Doctors: The Banality of Heroism 5: The Nurse's Dilemma 6: Patienthood and the Culture of Rights 7: Patients and Families Pt. 2: Medical Ethics: Triage and the Limitation of Treatment 8: "Penguins in the Basement" 9: Uncertainty, the Social Organization of Medicine, and Limitation of Treatment 10: Withholding, Withdrawing, and the "Terminal" Patient 11: Ethics, Families, and Technical Reason 12: The "Do Not Resuscitate" Order as Ritual 13: "A Legal Thing" 14: The Last Bed 15: Medicine's Two Cultures Appendix: On Method General Index Index of Doctors, Nurses, Patients, and Families of Patients
£28.00
Columbia University Press Aids Ethics A Users Guide
Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. It addresses controversial issues related to the tension between civil rights and public health, mandatory HIV testing, human subjects research, and others. It provides guidelines to health care and human service professionals, policy makers, scholars, and others.Table of ContentsPreface Contributors 1. AIDS: The Relevance of Ethics, by Frederic G. Reamer 2. AIDS, Public Health, and Civil Liberties: Consensus and Conflict in Policy, by Ronald Bayer 3. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing, by James F. Childress 4. AIDS and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research, by Carol Levine 5. AIDS and the Crisis of Health Insurance, by Gerald M. Oppenheimer and Robert A. Padgug 6. Ethical Issues in AIDS Education, by Nora Kizer Bell 7. Ethics and Militant AIDS Activism, by Courtney S. Campbell 8. AIDS and the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Robert J. Levine 9. AIDS and the Obligations of Health Care Professionals, by Abigail Zuger 10. AIDS and Privacy, by Ferdinand Schoeman 11. AIDS and the Law, by Donald H.J. Hermann Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy An Annual
Book SynopsisVolume 1 discusses the problems inherent in allocating limited biomedical technologies: whose needs take precedence, what individual rights and responsibilities are involved, and when societal good justifies restricting individual good. Volume Two focuses on whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn.Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction to Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy: An Annual Review Setting Policy Priorities for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources Emerging Issues in Genetic and Reproductive Technologies
£29.75
Columbia University Press Experiments in Democracy Human Embryo Research
Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this path-breaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of US debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights, and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls' seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy School In this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San Diego A well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Politics of Experiment 1. New Beginnings 2. Producing Life 3. Representing Reason 4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus 5. Confusing Deliberation 6. In the Laboratories of Democracy 7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress 8. The Legacy of Experiment Notes Index
£80.39
Columbia University Press Experiments in Democracy
Book SynopsisExperiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience.Trade ReviewWhere is American democracy made? In this pathbreaking study of bioethics bodies, Hurlbut finds answers in an unexpected place. Tracing the contorted history of U.S. debates on human embryo research, he brilliantly reveals the power accorded to scientific authority in establishing the preconditions, and even the right language, for valid moral reasoning. Full of original insights and supported by a wealth of archival research, this is political theory remade with the tools of science and technology studies. It deserves a place beside John Rawls’s seminal works on democratic deliberation and public reason. -- Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Harvard Kennedy SchoolIn this book, Hurlbut takes the social analysis of public bioethics to the next and higher level. With a focus on how bioethics claims are justified in liberal democratic societies and with a keen interpretive eye on debates about human embryos, I found many of his analyses to be profoundly insightful. This book is a must read for anyone interested in bio-policy in general and public bioethics in particular. -- John H. Evans, University of California, San DiegoA well-documented and rigorously argued book that analyzes the modes of public reason that have guided U.S. debates about the human embryo. Hurlbut shows how prevailing modes of reasoning gave science a constitutional role in configuring the terms of ethical discourse. Experiments in Democracy offers a fascinating study of the role of scientific authority in deliberation about bioethical issues in the United States. Important for understanding bioethical debates and the contemporary politics of American democracy. -- Stephen Hilgartner, Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell UniversityScience historian Benjamin Hurlbut offers a wide-angle history of US attempts at democratic deliberation on the ethics of human-embryo research. Painstakingly researched and spanning more than four decades — from the advent of in vitro fertilization in the 1970s to contemporary developments such as germline editing — the book draws attention to an intricate interplay between science and democracy. * Nature *Hurlbut provides an important new line of inquiry for histories of bioethics in the United States and elsewhere. * Isis *This is a great book on issues of bioethics, and the roles played by, and the inter-relationships among people of authority in government, in law, and in science * BizIndia *A fascinating and necessary review of the multifaceted issues cultivated by these revolutionary breakthroughs. Essential. All readers. * Choice *An important contribution to the science technology studies (STS) literature on the mechanisms of governance of emerging biotechnologies. * Bioethical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Politics of Experiment1. New Beginnings2. Producing Life3. Representing Reason4. Cloning, Knowledge, and the Politics of Consensus5. Confusing Deliberation6. In the Laboratories of Democracy7. Religion, Reason, and the Politics of Progress8. The Legacy of ExperimentNotesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Nursing the Spirit
Book SynopsisDon Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.Trade ReviewDon Grant brings the reader into the lived interpersonal experience of religion through the care that nurses engender of the body and spirit of patients. Out of such professional caregiving, Grant advances the social theory of care as a moral, emotional, and spiritual practice that resists professional and bureaucratic constraints on the meaning and future of the human in our highly technologized, bureaucratized, and neoliberal times. A serious and provocative achievement! -- Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a DoctorDon Grant's book on spirituality, and nursing the human spirit is an inspired treatise of sustaining human caring and human dignity wherever it is present! This work honors nursing as an exemplar of spirituality, depth of human spirit, and transcendent yet immanent nature of our shared humanity—evident in small and grand ways. Grant captures the universal history of human care and its relevant to diverse fields and life itself. A tremendous resource for interdisciplinary professional and lay interests, studies and practices. -- Jean Watson, author of Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of CaringDon Grant raises crucial questions about medical institutions, the place of spirituality in healthcare, and the limits of sociology as a way of knowing. Nursing the Spirit is a fascinating experiment in multifaceted research, as Grant juxtaposes first-person writing—about his experiences as an intern chaplain and as a patient—with social scientific methods of studying nursing work. The experiential and methodological modes of inquiry each tell their own truths, and readers can contemplate how these overlap and diverge. -- Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and EthicsBased on research at a hospital planning to end its chaplaincy program, Nursing the Spirit thoughtfully and sympathetically delves into how nurses think and talk about the spiritual aspects of their work, and how they sometimes provide spiritual care to patients. Both personal and scholarly, this book explores what it might mean for nurses to care for people’s entire selves—not just their bodies—and the challenges of doing so. -- Mark Chaves, author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends, second editionReligions urge us to care for suffering strangers. Nursing the Spirit shows that, although hospitals are bureaucratic organizations applying medical science, they are also places where nurses, in an unofficial and low-key way, offer spiritual (as well as physical) care to patients. Grant explains how and why they do this, and grapples with the important question of how an ethic of care can be kept alive in today’s societies. -- Paula England, New York University, past President of the American Sociological AssociationHow can the ideal of being ready to help not only those close to us, and of considering all people spiritual beings, be preserved and translated into social reality? In a brilliant sociological study of nurses in a university hospital, combined with personal and historical reflections, the author confronts us with the challenges for this ideal in the world of modern scientific medicine and opens realistic perspectives that give reason for hope. -- Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface1. Religion and Care of the Stranger2. The History of Caritas in Health Care3. Craft Versions of Religious Authority4. Second-Guessing Talk About Spirituality5. Pathways to Spiritual Meaning and Emotional Dead Ends6. Styles of Spiritual Care7. Bridging Science and Spirituality Through Storytelling8. Restoring the Sanctity Once Bestowed on HumanityNotesReferencesIndex
£93.60
Columbia University Press Nursing the Spirit
Book SynopsisDon Grant investigates the subtle ways that nurses at an academic medical center incorporate spirituality into their care work. Developing a new understanding of the social significance of religion, Nursing the Spirit recasts the intersection of science and spirituality by centering the perspectives of the people who provide care.Trade ReviewDon Grant brings the reader into the lived interpersonal experience of religion through the care that nurses engender of the body and spirit of patients. Out of such professional caregiving, Grant advances the social theory of care as a moral, emotional, and spiritual practice that resists professional and bureaucratic constraints on the meaning and future of the human in our highly technologized, bureaucratized, and neoliberal times. A serious and provocative achievement! -- Arthur Kleinman, author of The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a DoctorDon Grant's book on spirituality, and nursing the human spirit is an inspired treatise of sustaining human caring and human dignity wherever it is present! This work honors nursing as an exemplar of spirituality, depth of human spirit, and transcendent yet immanent nature of our shared humanity—evident in small and grand ways. Grant captures the universal history of human care and its relevant to diverse fields and life itself. A tremendous resource for interdisciplinary professional and lay interests, studies and practices. -- Jean Watson, author of Nursing: The Philosophy and Science of CaringDon Grant raises crucial questions about medical institutions, the place of spirituality in healthcare, and the limits of sociology as a way of knowing. Nursing the Spirit is a fascinating experiment in multifaceted research, as Grant juxtaposes first-person writing—about his experiences as an intern chaplain and as a patient—with social scientific methods of studying nursing work. The experiential and methodological modes of inquiry each tell their own truths, and readers can contemplate how these overlap and diverge. -- Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and EthicsBased on research at a hospital planning to end its chaplaincy program, Nursing the Spirit thoughtfully and sympathetically delves into how nurses think and talk about the spiritual aspects of their work, and how they sometimes provide spiritual care to patients. Both personal and scholarly, this book explores what it might mean for nurses to care for people’s entire selves—not just their bodies—and the challenges of doing so. -- Mark Chaves, author of American Religion: Contemporary Trends, second editionReligions urge us to care for suffering strangers. Nursing the Spirit shows that, although hospitals are bureaucratic organizations applying medical science, they are also places where nurses, in an unofficial and low-key way, offer spiritual (as well as physical) care to patients. Grant explains how and why they do this, and grapples with the important question of how an ethic of care can be kept alive in today’s societies. -- Paula England, New York University, past President of the American Sociological AssociationHow can the ideal of being ready to help not only those close to us, and of considering all people spiritual beings, be preserved and translated into social reality? In a brilliant sociological study of nurses in a university hospital, combined with personal and historical reflections, the author confronts us with the challenges for this ideal in the world of modern scientific medicine and opens realistic perspectives that give reason for hope. -- Hans Joas, Humboldt University, Berlin, and University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface1. Religion and Care of the Stranger2. The History of Caritas in Health Care3. Craft Versions of Religious Authority4. Second-Guessing Talk About Spirituality5. Pathways to Spiritual Meaning and Emotional Dead Ends6. Styles of Spiritual Care7. Bridging Science and Spirituality Through Storytelling8. Restoring the Sanctity Once Bestowed on HumanityNotesReferencesIndex
£27.00
Indiana University Press Feminist Queer Crip
Book SynopsisImagines a different future for disability and disabled bodiesTrade ReviewFeminist Queer Crip is a unique addition to the feminist, disability literature that could easily serve as a supplemental text in a disability studies or queer studies undergraduate or graduate course. . . . it is certainly relevant to academicians, researchers and clinicians interested in the future of disability studies and provides an intriguing list of diverse examples with which to further explore this too often invisible topic. * Sex Roles *Feminist, Queer, Crip makes significant contributions to our understanding of how disability works in the world, contributions that no other academic book in the recently emergent field of interdisciplinary disability studies has done so thoroughly. * Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies *Feminist, Queer, Crip is ambitious, doggedly interdisciplinary, and accessibly written. It retains political sharpness while remaining determinedly optimistic about queer/crip futures. * QED *As it is written in accessible and clear language, Feminist, Queer, Crip has the potential to reach a wide range of audiences including undergraduate students. It will expand the thinking of minority studies scholars, including feminist theorists, philosophers, bioethicists, queer studies, critical race theorists, disability studies, environmental studies, and American studies scholars. The book will likely provoke transformative thinking for those who work to build coalitions among identity-based political movements as well as policymakers and medical, legal, and disability service professionals.Summer 2014 * PhiloSOPHIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Imagined Futures1. Time for Disability Studies and a Future for Crips2. At the Same Time, Out of Time: Ashley X3. Debating Feminist Futures: Slippery Slopes, Cultural Anxiety, and the Case of the Deaf Lesbians4. A Future for Whom? Passing on Billboard Liberation5. The Cyborg and the Crip: Critical Encounters6. Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability7. Accessible Futures, Future CoalitionsAppendicesNotes BibliographyIndex
£55.80
Indiana University Press Making Sense of Intersex
Book SynopsisProposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions - one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors, this book presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.Trade ReviewRich with cross-discipline potential, Feder's engaging argument should provide a new approach for doctors and parents caring for children with atypical sex anatomy. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *Feder's book is a welcome injection of new ideas into feminist scholarship on intersex, post-Consensus Statement era. * Women's Review of Books *Is a work of philosophy capable of bringing insightful new perspectives or illuminating and forceful arguments to an urgent social matter so as truly to effect a felt change in the lives of people concerned by it? Feder's book is capable of this effect. As such, it takes the risk of calling forth a new public, or a new readership, and so is a work whose appeal could well be ahead of its time. But its time should be here. * International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics *Making Sense of Intersex significantly enhances our understanding of intersex and the ethical issues involved in medical practice more generally. * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal *Making Sense of Intersex is an impressive call for change. As such it is in conversation with intersex activist and scholarly work. * philoSOPHIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Disciplinary Limits: Philosophy, Bioethics, and the Medical Management of Atypical Sex1. The Trouble with Intersex: History Lessons2. "In Their Best Interests": Parents' Experience of Atypical Sex Anatomy in Children3. Tilting the Ethical Lens: Shame, Disgust, and the Body in Question4. Reassigning Ambiguity: Parental Decisions and the Matter of Harm5. A Question of Ethics as/or a Question of Culture: The Problem of What Is and What Ought to Be6. Neutralizing Morality: Nondirective Counseling of Parents of Children with Intersex Conditions, 2006-7. Practicing Virtue: A Parental Duty8. Protecting Vulnerability: An Imperative of CareConclusion. Lessons from PhysiciansNotesReferencesIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Making Sense of Intersex
Book SynopsisProposing a philosophical framework for the treatment of children with intersex conditions - one that acknowledges the intertwined identities of parents, children, and their doctors, this book presents a persuasive moral argument for collective responsibility to these children and their families.Trade ReviewRich with cross-discipline potential, Feder's engaging argument should provide a new approach for doctors and parents caring for children with atypical sex anatomy. * Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) *Feder's book is a welcome injection of new ideas into feminist scholarship on intersex, post-Consensus Statement era. * Women's Review of Books *Is a work of philosophy capable of bringing insightful new perspectives or illuminating and forceful arguments to an urgent social matter so as truly to effect a felt change in the lives of people concerned by it? Feder's book is capable of this effect. As such, it takes the risk of calling forth a new public, or a new readership, and so is a work whose appeal could well be ahead of its time. But its time should be here. * International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics *Making Sense of Intersex significantly enhances our understanding of intersex and the ethical issues involved in medical practice more generally. * Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal *Making Sense of Intersex is an impressive call for change. As such it is in conversation with intersex activist and scholarly work. * philoSOPHIA *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Disciplinary Limits: Philosophy, Bioethics, and the Medical Management of Atypical Sex1. The Trouble with Intersex: History Lessons2. "In Their Best Interests": Parents' Experience of Atypical Sex Anatomy in Children3. Tilting the Ethical Lens: Shame, Disgust, and the Body in Question4. Reassigning Ambiguity: Parental Decisions and the Matter of Harm5. A Question of Ethics as/or a Question of Culture: The Problem of What Is and What Ought to Be6. Neutralizing Morality: Nondirective Counseling of Parents of Children with Intersex Conditions, 2006-7. Practicing Virtue: A Parental Duty8. Protecting Vulnerability: An Imperative of CareConclusion. Lessons from PhysiciansNotesReferencesIndex
£19.79
Indiana University Press The Ethics of Autism Among Them but Not of Them
Book SynopsisConsiders the implications of autism for the nature of consciousness, our understanding of the consciousness of others, meaning theories in philosophy of language, and the modality of mind. This book explores questions about genetic decision making, research into the nature of autism, and the controversial quest for a cure.Trade ReviewThis is an important book, and deserves a wide readership among academics and practitioners involved with autism, as well as among philosophers. * Autism *. . . an important, albeit atypical, contribution to disability and ethics. . . . the work should be commended for its innovative approach.June 2009 * Choice *[The Ethics of Autism] provides a serious examination of the moral and ethical issues surrounding autism and Asperger's syndrome. Although there are many books about autism, in the 66 years since the condition was first described none has tackled the ehtics of autism head on in the way that Barnbaum does. This book kick-starts the ethical debate that I think we need.Vol. 373, May 9, 2009 * The Lancet *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. A Philosophical Introduction to Autism Voices of Autism: Jim Sinclair2. The Value of an Autistic Life Voices of Autism: Wendy Lawson3. Autism and Moral Theories Voices of Autism: Gunilla Gerland4. Autism and Genetic Technologies Voices of Autism: Donna Williams5. Research on Persons with Autism Voices of Autism: Temple GrandinNotesBibliographyIndex
£16.14
Indiana University Press A Century of Eugenics in America From the
Book SynopsisExploring the history of eugenics in the U.S.Trade ReviewAs a nation with lofty ambitions, the United States has had a mixed relationship with eugenics. The first country to prohibit procreation by criminals and 'idiots' — in the state of Indiana in 1907 — today it embraces the Human Genome Project and the possibility of genetic enhancement. Law professor Paul Lombardo examines US legislation and attitudes to human selection in the past century, and the likelihood of such pressures arising again in modern genetics. * Nature *Valuable and welcome . . . * BULLETIN HISTORY OF MEDICINE *[T]here are indeed valuable lessons to be learnt from . . . this book; the editor was probably wise to confine its scope to the narrower brief of American compulsory sterilisation . . . .Nov. 2011 * Human Genetics *Valuable and welcome . . .Vol. 85.4 Winter 2011 * BULLETIN HISTORY OF MEDICINE *A noted historian of the eugenics movement, editor Lombardo has divided this book into essays . . . The final two essays are perhaps the most important, as they look at the implications for contemporary medicine and law regarding the renewed interest in 'better breeding' as a result of the Human Genome Project. . . . Recommended.October 2011 * Choice *Paul Lombardo has assembled a compelling argument for close monitoring of modern genetic policies in the Human Genome Era . . . It is essential reading. April 20, 2011 * The Internet Review of Books *Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking Back at Eugenics / Paul A. LombardoPart 1. The Indiana Origins of Eugenic Sterilization 1. The Hoosier Connection: Compulsory Sterilization as Moral Hygiene / Elof Axel Carlson 2. The Indiana Way of Eugenics: Sterilization Laws, 1907–74 / Jason S. LantzerPart 2. Eugenics and Popular Culture 3. From Better Babies to the Bunglers: Eugenics on Tobacco Road / Paul A. Lombardo 4. "Quality, Not Mere Quantity, Counts": Black Eugenics and the NAACP Baby Contests / Gregory Michael Dorr and Angela LoganPart 3. State Studies of Eugenic Sterilization 5. From Legislation to Lived Experience: Eugenic Sterilization in California and Indiana, 1907–79 / Alexandra Minna Stern 6. Eugenics and Social Welfare in New Deal Minnesota / Molly Ladd-Taylor 7. Reassessing Eugenic Sterilization: The Case of North Carolina / Johanna Schoen 8. Protection or Control? Women's Health, Sterilization Abuse, and Relf v. Weinberger / Gregory Michael DorrPart 4. Eugenics in the Human Genome Era 9. Are We Entering a "Perfect Storm" for a Resurgence of Eugenics? Science, Medicine, and Their Social Context / Linda L. McCabe and Edward R. B. McCabe 10. Modern Eugenics and the Law / Maxwell J. MehlmanList of ContributorsIndex
£18.89
MH - Indiana University Press Advance Directives and the Pursuit of Death with
Book SynopsisAn advance medical directive (living will) is a device aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after a patient is no longer competent. This book outlines the legal foundation and framework governing advance directives and considers how such documents should be drafted in light of that legal framework.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: ON RESTRAINING LIFE-PRESERVING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY1. The Bounds of Autonomy for Competent Medical Patients2. Advance Directives and Problems of Prospective Autonomy3. Choosing the Best Format in Light of the Statutory Framework for Advance Directives4. Drafting Advance Instructions5. Interpretation and Administration of Advance Directives6. The Moral Boundaries of Shaping Post-Competence Medical Care7. Enforcing Advance Directives8. New Jersey's Model LegislationAppendix A: Advance Directive for Health CareAppendix B: Form Health-Care Power of AttorneyAppendix C: The New Jersey Bioethics Commission's Combined Advance Directive for Health Care (Combined Proxy and Instruction Directive)Appendix D: A Values ProfileNotesIndex
£22.79
University of Notre Dame Press Stem Cell Research
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays by an internationally distinguished and diverse group of scholars. Contributors thoughtfully explore the ethical, public policy, and scientific implications of embryonic and adult stem cell research. Part one of the book offers a variety of scientific and public policy perspectives, including essays on stem cell plasticity and using umbilical cord blood as an alternative source of pluripotent stem cells. Part two vigorously examines the ethics of stem cell research and considers issues of social justice, morality, and public policy. Scientific alternatives, a natural law perspective regarding federal funding, and a discussion of the possible moral complicity of Catholic researchers are among the distinctive contributions made to the stem cell research debate by this collection. The objective and balanced discussions contained in this volume serve as an accessible introduction to the bioethical questions, issues, and problems surroundiTrade Review“This collection covers a broad range of scientific, ethical, and public policy issues. Some articles provide general background and information, while others make highly original contributions to the ongoing debate. Ethical issues are discussed knowledgeably from a variety of religious and philosophical perspectives. Thoughtful disagreements among authors illustrate the difficulty of reaching a consensus on public policy.” —Carol A. Tauer, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN"In the book, Stem Cell Research, Nancy Snow provides a collection of essays that discuss different aspects of the stem cell debate. This is an important endeavor. . ." —Dialogue". . . this collection of essays is sure to speak to readers on either side of this divisive issue." —NationalJournal.com"[Stem Cell Research] provides a useful primer for many. . . of the ethical issues presented by the embryonic stem cell debate." —The Quarterly Review of Biology“This collection is an important resource for any bioethics course.” —Theological Studies“. . . so volatile and dynamic are the variables in the debates over this type of research, it would be a mistake not to look upon it as having lasting value. The authors are attentive to cutting edge science to be sure, but they effectively raise up time-tested principles from biomedical ethics and the natural law tradition in an effort to weigh the pros and cons.” —Catholic Library World“Snow’s volume is earnest . . . a plea for ethically informed science.” —Times Literary Supplement“. . . the contributions are thought-provoking and the arguments need to be addressed by proponents of the research.” —Conscience“This volume is a collection of ten essays developed out of a 2001 conference . . . the gathering convened scientists and ethicists to discuss scientific, public policy, and ethical issues concerning human stem cell research . . . the essays offer a wide range of topics, analyses, and arguments, and, as a whole, exhibit some of the complexity of issues involved in discussing human stem cell research-human embryonic stem cell research in particular. As such, the volume is an excellent introduction to the nuanced contours of this contentious realm.” —Pro Ecclesia
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University of Notre Dame Press A Rich Bioethics
Book SynopsisIn this book Adam Briggle provides a sympathetic account of the President’s Council on Bioethics led by Dr. Leon Kass.Trade Review“Adam Briggle has written a rich and sympathetic account of the President's Council on Bioethics led by Leon Kass. It puts in historical context the efforts of this council to move beyond the limited ‘instrumentalist’ approaches to bioethics taken by earlier commissions, toward a more philosophically serious effort to deliberate on the human goods put in play by modern biomedicine. In the process it answers many of the charges of politicization and corrects the record concerning the council's work.” —Francis Fukuyama, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies“What an eloquent, humane, and wise book. Briggle discovers an imperfect yet fascinating effort to bring the world of biomedical research into the domain of public philosophy. His scholarship and generosity make clear that a democratic society need not be morally shackled to the realm of the possible that science is constantly expanding.” —Daniel Sarewitz, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, Arizona State University"This is the most persuasive and thoughtful reconstruction of the Kass Council's goals and rationale that I have seen. Adam Briggle's account of the notion of a 'richer' bioethics is comprehensive and well-reasoned." —Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania“A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council . . . gives an account of the President’s Council of Bioethics, led by Leon Kass from 2001-05, during President George W. Bush’s administration.” —Denton Record-Chronicle"Briggle offers the first book-length analysis of the council’s work, setting it in a wider philosophical, historical, and political context. The book also discusses how the procedure for selecting council members led to accusations that it was ideologically narrow. The book’s well-balanced analysis and close but fair readings of the council’s documents show how the Kass Council dealt with differences and was far more tolerant of varying opinions than many think. This book would be a useful supplementary text in classes on bioethics and public policy.” —Choice“Anyone familiar with MacIntyre’s narrative of decline and hoped-for renewal is likely to be struck by the similarities with this account of Adam Briggle’s depiction of contemporary bioethics in A Rich Bioethics. In Briggle’s view, bioethics is in disarray largely because it has succumbed to what he calls ‘instrumentalism.’ . . . there is much of value in Briggle’s book. . . . it offers a model for public ethics committees that merits serious consideration.” —Commonweal"The Kass council’s reports, even more than Kass’s own work, became, in Adam Briggle’s words, 'a lightning rod for political controversy.' In particular, the council attracted criticism from many that its membership had been stacked to reflect Bush’s own conservative views and that it was insufficiently attentive to the existence of disagreement among its own members. In his brief and breezy A Rich Bioethics, Briggle (a philosopher at the University of North Texas) sets out to give an account of the council’s fundamental conception of bioethics and to evaluate its performance against that conception." —Science“In this book Dr. Briggle provides a sympathetic account of the President’s Council on Bioethics led by Dr. Leon Kass. He shows the wisdom of the approach to bioethics taken by the Kass Council and corrects the unfair and often nasty attacks on the Council and Dr. Kass himself. It is a persuasive and thoughtful reconstruction of the Council’s goals and rationale.” —Law & Medicine“Briggle had an inspired idea to make the controversies surrounding Leon Kass’s chairmanship of the President’s Council on Bioethics (2001-5) his point of departure to argue the need for bioethics based in humanistic questioning rather than accepting the more restricted task of what he calls instrumental bioethics, which exists to offer specific policy guidelines. The issues are clear throughout but perhaps best crystallized near the end of the book, when Briggle presents criticisms that the Kass Council failed to be sufficiently policy oriented.” —Science and Public Policy“Adam Briggle has written a fine book on a complex, controversial topic. He shows the wisdom of the approach to bioethics taken by the Kass Council, sets right the unfair and often nasty attacks on the council and Kass himself, and offers a perceptive and wide-ranging look at the terrain of ethics.” —Daniel Callahan, The Hastings Center
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University of Notre Dame Press In Defense of Human Dignity
Book SynopsisRobert Kraynak and Glenn Tinder contend that the major challenge of our time is to recover a true and authentic understanding of human dignity and to defend it against threats from modern civilization. In Defense of Human Dignity wrestles with the dilemma that contemporary society has developed a heightened sensitivity to the demands of human dignity while creating radically new dangers to humanity in the form of the totalitarian state, modern technology, genetic engineering, the practical ethics movement, and radical environmentalism.Representing diverse viewpoints, the authors of this volume explore what is meant by human dignity and related notions, such as the sanctity of life. The authors not only defend human dignity drawing upon principles from Kantian ethics, theories of human rights, the Bible, and Christianity theology they also examine the limitations and problems of misguided conceptions of human dignity.The inspiration for this volume is the pubTrade Review"...fine essays...This encouraging volume reminds me that there are historically proven questions and age-old arguments about human nature that we still ought to consider within and outside of the academy."—Rhetoric & Public Affairs"Despite its title, this book is more about the various meanings and implications of human dignity than its defense. The contributors agree that the idea of human dignity has widespread if not unanimous support today, even if it is all too frequently violated in practice. However, they identify many different concepts of human dignity throughout history and at present and they differ among themselves as to which concept is preferable." —The Heythrop Journal“...those committed to liberalism need to defend it against its despisers. ... In Defense of Human Dignity is an important book that recognizes this challenge. I recommend it for scholars and citizens who are concerned about liberalism’s future.” —Markets & Morality
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University of Notre Dame Press Liberalisms Troubled Search for Equality
Book SynopsisJones challenges progressives to find the heart of the liberal tradition not in allegedly neutral appeals to “choice” but in a renewed commitment to equality and social justice that welcomes public religious voices as allies.Trade Review"In this engrossing study of debates over physician-assisted suicide, Jones has issued a challenge to liberals. The old idea that liberalism is morally neutral and culturally unbiased will have to be discarded. But in doing so, liberals just may find allies among religious and other voices fighting for equality." —Amy Sullivan, The Washington Monthly“Examining the legal debates surrounding Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, [Jones] argues that liberal theorists such as Ronald Dworkin, whom he otherwise admires, are wrong to weigh in on the side of physician-assisted suicide. The cause of their error, he argues, is a failure to recognize the cultural biases that help socially determine suicide choices. This failure is connected with a failure to fully articulate the commitment to egalitarianism suggested by Dworkin's own conception of 'equality of resources.'” —SciTech Book News“Focuses on the writings of Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls in a critique of liberal egalitarian philosophers’ support for physician-assisted suicide; argues that liberal philosophers should oppose the practice, at least until access to health care is assured for all.” —The Chronicle of Higher Education“Liberalism’s Troubled Search for Equality is the most sophisticated analysis I have read that gives a social and philosophical context to the Oregon debate on assisted death. Jones’s meaningful discussion of moral values in liberal political philosophy incorporates strong scholarship and an impressive use of interviews and ethnography.” —Courtney S. Campbell, Oregon State University"A fresh, challenging, and timely approach to the political intersections of religion and progressive politics. Cutting through the headlines on the contentious physician assisted suicide issue, Jones's intellectually rigorous focus on equality and justice as the key to shaping an authentic liberal response will have great appeal across political and religious lines. His approach offers precisely the right prescription for a stronger progressive movement." —Rabbi David Saperstein, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
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University of Notre Dame Press Song Sparrow and the Child
Book SynopsisIn this thought-provoking book, distinguished legal scholar Joseph Vining traces the complex roots of brutal twentieth-century human experimentation and extermination to worldviews that dehumanize both perpetrators and victims in distinctive ways, stripping them of their individuality as well as their intrinsic dignity and value. Vining finds a disturbing parallel between these worldviews and what he calls total theory. Total theories are beautiful and helpful explanations through attention to system and process that aggressively claim to account for the universe and everything in it. Vining maintains that some of the most gifted intellectuals and scientists of our time profess these theories without necessarily considering the implications of such totalizing worldviews.Using the example of the song sparrow and the child, Vining opens our eyes to the ramifications of total theory. He challenges readers to question casual acceptance of the total theories that are widely and quTrade Review“The Song Sparrow and the Child is a powerful indictment of the impulses toward intellectual imperialism that have arisen in the wake of the fragmentation of the human and natural sciences. Vining has given us an important book, illuminating as only he can the hidden connections among seemingly unrelated phenomena.” —Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University“The Song Sparrow and the Child is an astonishing and wonderful book. With exquisite sensitivity to science as an admirable human practice Joseph Vining has thought through the implications of the scientific ambition for “total theory,” for all-encompassing frameworks of explanation. Far from being intrinsic to the scientific endeavor, Vining argues that total theory is a threat—not only to science but also to the broader realm of human thought and ethical action. The Song Sparrow and the Child recalls us to a concern for particularity and for honesty about the infliction of suffering which is intellectually convincing and does so with both grace and passion. This is a book that demands, and rewards, thinking hard with the mind and heart.” —H. Jefferson Powell, Professor of Law and Divinity, Duke University“This book is an erudite, personal, and even poetic discourse on the conception of humankind’s role that may be necessary in order that the sparrow and the child, the lamb and the lion, and all humankind live together with a greater sense of awe and harmony.” —Harold T. Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University". . .The Song Sparrow and the Child is continuous with earlier writings that have established Vining among the more profoundly challenging but also more idiosyncratic and elusive (and as a result, I believe, underappreciated) legal thinkers in recent decades. . . one of the voices in the legal academy most worth listening to." —Michigan Law Review". . . wise, gentle, and impassioned book. . ." —Theological Studies"Vining uses words well, even elegantly. His book is a combination legal argument and sermon." —Choice
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University of Notre Dame Press Medicine and Shariah A Dialogue in Islamic
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients.” —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic EthicsTable of ContentsPreface An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers 1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature 2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions 3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death 4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science 5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process 6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of “Islamic” Bioethical Discourse 7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians 8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation
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University of Notre Dame Press Medicine and Shariah
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Medicine and Shariah fills an important and widely felt gap among Muslims. There have been numerous recent works on Islamic bioethics, but none as far as I am aware that specifically focus on the actual interaction between physicians and jurists. Aasim Padela is one of the foremost medical experts who has brought to the fore practical as well as institutional challenges that face Muslim physicians and patients.” —Ovamir Anjum, author of Politics, Law, and Community in Islamic Thought"The book is well written, striking an academic and balanced tone, which cannot be said of much that passes for Islamic bioethics today. I have no doubt that Aasim Padela will be remembered as a pioneer of our field." —Journal of Islamic EthicsTable of ContentsPreface An Introduction to Islamic Bioethics: Its Producers and Consumers 1. The Relationship between Medicine and Religion: Insights from the Fatwa Literature 2. The Islamic Juridical Principle of Dire Necessity (al-ḍarūra) and its Application to the Field of Biomedical Interventions 3. A Jurisprudential (Uṣūlī) Framework for Cooperation between Muslim Jurists and Physicians and Its Application to the Determination of Death 4. Considering Being and Knowing in an Age of Techno-Science 5. Exploring the Role of Mental Status and Expert Testimony in the Islamic Judicial Process 6. Muslim Perspectives on the American Healthcare System: The Discursive Framing of “Islamic” Bioethical Discourse 7. Muslim Doctors and Islamic Bioethics: Insights from a National Survey of American Muslim Physicians 8. Jurists, Physicians, and Others in Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Vision for Islamic Bioethical Deliberation
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Ethics in Speech and Language Therapy
Book SynopsisEthics in Speech and Language Therapy is a key text for students, practitioners and managers alike. The demands of practice, legislation, registration and the recognition of competencies all point to the need for speech and language therapists to be explicitly educated about ethics.Trade Review"This is really thought-provoking - far from a dry, dull book about ethical theories and principles . . . this book is an excellent resource for helping us think more deeply about our work-related ethical challenges." (Speech & Language Therapy in Practice, 1 July 2011)Table of ContentsList of contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Practising Ethically. 3. Dysphagia. 4. Intellectual and Sensory Impairment. 5. Acquired Language Disorders. 6. Paediatric Speech and Language Disorders. 7. Degenerative Conditions in Ageing. 8. Service Provision and Management. 9. Common Themes and Emerging Trends.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Medical Ethics For Dummies
Book SynopsisSucceeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, whilst knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I: Medical Ethics, or Doing the Right Thing 7 Chapter 1: What Are Medical Ethics? 9 Chapter 2: Morality in Medicine 19 Chapter 3: The Provider-Patient Relationship 33 Chapter 4: Outside the Examining Room: Running an Ethical Practice 55 Chapter 5: Learning from Mistakes: Disclosing Medical Errors 73 Part II: A Patient’s Right to Request, Receive, and Refuse Care 93 Chapter 6: The Ethical Challenges in Distributing Basic Healthcare 95 Chapter 7: When Spirituality and Cultural Beliefs Affect Care 113 Chapter 8: Parental Guidance and Responsibilities 127 Part III: Ethics at the Beginning and End of Life 147 Chapter 9: Two Lives, One Patient: Pregnancy Rights and Issues 149 Chapter 10: When Science Supersedes Sex: Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy 171 Chapter 11: Walking a Fine Line: Examining the Ethics of Abortion 195 Chapter 12: Determining Death: Not an Event, but a Process 219 Chapter 13: Death with Dignity: The Right to Appropriate End-of-Life Care 233 Part IV: Advancing Medical Knowledge with Ethical Clinical Research 257 Chapter 14: Toward Trials without Error: The Evolution of Ethics in Clinical Research 259 Chapter 15: Beyond Guinea Pigs: Anatomy of an Ethical Clinical Trial 275 Chapter 16: Research in Special Populations 293 Chapter 17: It’s All in the Genes: The Ethics of Stem Cell and Genetic Research 307 Part V: The Part of Tens 331 Chapter 18: Ten Ethical Issues to Address with Your Patients 333 Chapter 19: Ten High-Profi le Medical Ethics Cases 341 Chapter 20: Almost Ten Ethical Issues for the Future 349 Index 353
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Science and Ethics of Engineering the Human
Book SynopsisWith implications that go to the core of what it means to be human, the issues raised by genetic manipulation especially cloning have sparked a passionate debate among governmental, religious, and scientific quarters, as well as the media and the general public. This work covers this topic.Trade Review"...will help us engage in a sensible and productive discussion to decide collectively the role genetic technologies should play in our future." (The Quarterly Review of Biology, December 2004) "Academic, hospital, and corporate health sciences libraries would welcome this title as an asset to their collections." (E-STREAMS, July 2004) "...an essential and accessible guide to these important subjects. Dr. Gordon and John-Wiley Corporation jointly deserve a pat in the back for producing a beneficial and 'eye-opening' book." (Annals of Biomedical Engineering, August 2004) “...elucidates the background of genetic manipulation for the layman...recommended...” (Choice, Vol. 41, No. 8, April 2004) “...this book succeeds in demystifying many of the issues surrounding germline genetic manipulations...” (Science Books & Films, April 2004) "This powerful ethical message, combined with Gordon's scientific acumen, make for a simultaneously accessible and thoughtful book." (Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, July 2003)Table of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgments. PART I. 1. Setting the Table. 2. Building a Living Organism from Inanimate Parts. 3. Molecular Biology and Recombinant DNA Technology. 4. Transmitting the Genetic Information to Future Generations. 5. Developmental Biology. 6. Reproductive Biology and Assisted Reproductive Technologies. 7. Methods and Strategies for Gene Transfer and Engineering of the Germ Line. PART II. 8. Introduction to the Ethics of Reproductive Genetic Technologies. 9. Future Developments and Applications of Genetic Engineering Technology. 10. What If? Ethical and Legal Aspects of Germ Line Genetic Manipulation. A Brief Epilogue: Understanding Our Biases. Index.
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Pharmaceutical Ethics Medical Sciences
Book SynopsisProvides ethical guidelines much needed by the pharmaceutical industry. This book covers ethical issues involved in the testing and use of pharmaceuticals on humans, focusing on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry and not medicine in general.Trade Review"...it will give the uninitiated a feel for the range of ethical isues..." (Mental Health Care, February 2003) "...a good introduction to the ethics surrounding pharmaceuticals..." (Pharmaceutical Physician, March 2003) "...the core question: should you read this book...definitely yes...the book stimulates our thinking and helps the reader to define and outline the many dilemmas in health care..." (Pharm World Sci, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2003)Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Preface. Foreword. 1. The Basis of Ethics (Jon Merrills). 2. Principles of Ethics Focusing on the Patient (Andrew Edgar). 3. Ethical Rationalism Applied to Pharmaceuticals (R.P. Dessing). 4. The Etihcs of the Drug Discovery and Development Process (Roger G. Bolton). 5. Informed Conset: Reconsideration of its Structure and Role in Medicine (Jan Payne). 6. Clinical Trials of Pharmaceuticals: Ethical Aspects (Olivier Chassany, Martin Duracinsky and Isabelle Mahé). 7. Can We Afford the Medicines We Need: An Ethical Dilemma? (Roger Walker). 8. Physician Choice or Patient Choice: Ethical Dilemmas in Science and Politics (Andrew Edgar). 9. The Economics of Drug-Related Morbidity and Mortality: Ethical Considerations (J. Lyle Bootman and Amy J. Grizzle). 10. Holistic Approach in Choice of Pharmaceutical Agents: Ethical Responsibilities (Sam Salek). 11. Ethical Values in the Treatment of Depression and Anxiety (John Lilja, Sam Larsson, David Hamilton and Mia Bauer). 12. Ethical Promotion and Advertising of Medicines: Where Do We Draw the Line? (Ivor Harrison). 13. Ethical Problems of Drug Categorization for Reimbursement (Chris Good). Index.
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University of California Press Everyday Ethics Voices from the Front Line of
Book SynopsisExplores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics Background to practice 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility Tools of the trade 3. Treatment Plans: Mandatory Narratives of Progress 4. Representative Payeeships: The Deep Logic of Dependency 5. Commitment Orders: The Practice of Consent and Constraint From Everyday to Formal Ethics 6. Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work Bibliography
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University of California Press Everyday Ethics
Book SynopsisExplores the moral lives of mental health clinicians serving the most marginalized individuals in the US healthcare system. This title traces the ethical dilemmas and everyday struggles of front line providers. It shows how people working deep inside the system struggle to maintain their ideals and manage a chronic sense of futility.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Terrain of Everyday Ethics Background to practice 1. Genealogy of the Treatment Model 2. Expert knowledge and Encounters with Futility Tools of the trade 3. Treatment Plans: Mandatory Narratives of Progress 4. Representative Payeeships: The Deep Logic of Dependency 5. Commitment Orders: The Practice of Consent and Constraint From Everyday to Formal Ethics 6. Coercion, Confidentiality, and the Moral Contours of Work Bibliography
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University of California Press Beyond Bioethics
Book SynopsisFor decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics.Beyond Bioethicsaddresses these provocative issues from an emerging standpoint that is attentive to race, gender, class, disability, privacy, and notions of democracya new biopolitics. This authoritative volume provides an overview for those grappling with the profound dilemmas posed by these developments. It brings together the work of cutting-edge thinkers from diverse fields of study and public engagement, all of them committed to this new perspective grounded in social justice and public interest values.Trade Review"A useful contribution. Gives both a name and a direction to a more socially conscious ethical and political framework to the controversial issues posed by developments in genomics." * Metapsychology Online Reviews *"With the rapid development of new biotechnologies like CRISPR, Beyond Bioethics makes a timely call for a novel take on bioethics capable of addressing the significant sociopolitical implications of these technologies. . . . Bridging together thinkers across the humanities and sciences divide, Beyond Bioethics models a progressive, interdisciplinary approach to bioethics that extends beyond a focus on the individual toward a 'new biopolitics' of the global, the collective." * Somatosphere *"As an argument for a particular focus in bioethics, with each chapter serving as a case providing an example of this focus, Beyond Bioethics is convincing. . . . covers a lot of theoretical ground, and is clear and enjoyable to read without sacrificing intelligence. It will certainly spark both scholarly discussion and student interest." * Quarterly Review of Biology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Troy Duster Acknowledgments Note to Readers Introduction - Osagie K. Obasogie and Marcy Darnovsky Part I. The Biopolitical Critique of Bioethics: Historical Context 1. The Biological Inferiority of the Undeserving Poor - Michael B. Katz 2. Making Better Babies: Public Health and Race Betterment in Indiana, 1920–1935 - Alexandra Minna Stern 3. Eugenics and the Nazis: The California Connection - Edwin Black 4. Why the Nazis Studied American Race Law for Inspiration - James Q. Whitman 5. Constructing Normalcy: The Bell Curve, the Novel, and the Invention of the Disabled Body in the Nineteenth Century - Lennard J. Davis 6. The Eugenics Legacy of the Nobelist Who Fathered IVF - Osagie K. Obasogie Part II. Bioethics and its Discontents 7. A Sociological Account of the Growth of Principlism - John H. Evans 8. Why a Feminist Approach to Bioethics? - Margaret Olivia Little 9. Disability Rights Approach toward Bioethics? - Gregor Wolbring 10. Differences from Somewhere: The Normativity of Whiteness in Bioethics in the United States - Catherine Myser 11. Bioethical Silence and Black Lives - Derek Ayeh 12. The Ethicists - Carl Elliott Part II. Emerging Biotechnologies, Extreme Ideologies: The Recent Past and Near Future 13. The Genome as Commons - Tom Athanasiou and Marcy Darnovsky 14. Yuppie Eugenics - Ruth Hubbard and Stuart Newman 15. Brave New Genome - Eric S. Lander 16. Can We Cure Genetic Diseases without Slipping into Eugenics? - Nathaniel Comfort 17. Cyborg Soothsayers of the High-Tech Hogwash Emporia: In Amsterdam with the Singularity - Corey Pein Part IV. Markets, Property, and The Body 18. Flacking for Big Pharma - Harriet A. Washington 19. Your Body, Their Property - Osagie K. Obasogie 20. Where Babies Come From: Supply and Demand in an Infant Marketplace - Debora Spar 21. Dear Facebook, Please Don’t Tell Women to Lean In to Egg Freezing - Jessica Cussins 22. The Miracle Woman - Rebecca Skloot Part V. Patients As Consumers in The Gene Age 23. What Is Your DNA Worth? - David Dobbs 24. Should Patients Understand That They Are Research Subjects? - Jenny Reardon 25. Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Tests Should Come with a Health Warning - Jessica Cussins 26. Genetic Testing for All Women? Not a Solution to the Breast Cancer Epidemic - Karuna Jaggar 27. Welcome, Freshmen: DNA Swabs, Please - Troy Duster 28. Me Medicine - Donna Dickenson 29. Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era - Ronald Bayer and Sandro Galea Part VI. Seeking Humanity in Human Subjects Research 30. Medical Exploitation: Inmates Must Not Become Guinea Pigs Again - Allen M. Hornblum and Osagie K. Obasogie 31. The Body Hunters - Marcia Angell 32. Guinea-Pigging - Carl Elliott 33. Human Enhancement and Experimental Research in the Military - Efthimios Parasidis 34. Non-Consenting Adults - Harriet A. Washington Part VII. Baby-Making in The Biotech Age 35. Generation I.V.F.: Making a Baby in the Lab—10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me - Miriam Zoll 36. Queering the Fertility Clinic - Laura Mamo 37. Reproductive Tourism: Equality Concerns in the Global Market for Fertility Services - Lisa Chiyemi Ikemoto 38. Make Me a Baby as Fast as You Can - Douglas Pet 39. Let’s Get Rid of the Secrecy in Donor-Conceived Families - Naomi Cahn and Wendy Kramer Part VIII. Selecting Traits, Selecting Children 40. Disability Equality and Prenatal Testing: Contradictory or Compatible? - Adrienne Asch 41. The Bleak New World of Prenatal Genetics - Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern 42. Have New Prenatal Tests Been Dangerously Oversold? - Beth Daley 43. Sex Selection and the Abortion Trap - Mara Hvistendahl 44. A Baby, Please: Blond, Freckles—Hold the Colic - Gautam Naik Part IX. Reinventing Race in The Gene Age 45. Straw Men and Their Followers: The Return of Biological Race - Evelynn M. Hammonds 46. The Problem with Race-Based Medicine - Dorothy Roberts 47. Race in a Bottle - Jonathan Kahn 48. The Science and Business of Genetic Ancestry Testing - Deborah A. Bolnick et al. 49. All That Glitters Isn’t Gold - Osagie K. Obasogie and Troy Duster 50. High-Tech, High-Risk Forensics - Osagie K. Obasogie Part X. Biopolitics and The Future 51. Die, Selfish Gene, Diem - David Dobbs 52. Toward Race Impact Assessments - Osagie K. Obasogie 53. Human Genetic Engineering Demands More Than a Moratorium - Sheila Jasanoff, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, and Krishanu Saha 54. “Moral Meanings of an Altogether Different Kind”: Progressive Politics in the Biotech Age - Marcy DarnovskyAfterword by Patricia J. Williams List of Contributors Index
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University of California Press Just Doctoring
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Question of Life
Book SynopsisDiscusses artificial and in vitro fertilization, egg and embryo donation, surrogate mothers, the storage of human semen, eggs, and embryos, and scientific and ethical issues in fertility.
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Wiley A Companion to Genethics
Book SynopsisThis is a study of the multi-faceted dimensions of the genetic revolution and its philosophical, ethical, social, and political significance. It brings together the best and most influential contemporary writing about genetics.Trade Review“The editors are to be congratulated on compiling such a stimulating and provocative volume. This is for those who wish to examine the basis of human bioethics thoroughly, whether they be novice or expert. Those who think they have clear attitudes to many of the ethical and social issues raised by developments in human genetics are likely to be forced to rethink at least some of their positions by the challenging and well-presented arguments that have been gathered together here." Angus Clarke, University of Wales "This timely book makes clear that genetic research will transform healthcare, choices about children, and standards of property. The contributors here stake out key questions facing health professionals and social policy makers, and they have insightful things to say about how we should go about answering those questions." Timothy F. Murphy, University of IllinoisCollege of Medicine at Chicago " ... Genethics makes some important contributions, offering a primer on key aspects of contemporary genetics before focusing on some of the most important ethical, legal, economic, political issues facing researchers, politicians, and, to some extent, the general population ... The book's strengths are its multidisciplinary approach, the overall quality of its contributions, and the refusal of most contributors to oversimplify and risk the microdeterminism of many popular essays." ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction : Justine Burley (University of Manchester and Exeter College, Oxford) and John Harris (University of Manchester). 1. Stem cells: C.N. Svendsen (University of Cambridge). 2. Gene therapy for neurological disorders: P.R. Lowenstein (Gene Therapeutics Institute). 3. Cloning in biology and medicine: Ian Wilmut (Roslin Institute)Genetics of old age: Thomas B.L. Kirkwood (University of Newcastle). 4. The ethical legacy of Nazi medical war crimes: Paul Weindling (Oxford Bookes University). 5. Biotechnology and animals: Bernard E. Rollin (Colorado State University). 6. The role of informed consent in genetic experimentation: SørenHolm (University of Oslo). 7. Testing children and adolescents: Dorothy Wertz (University of Massachusetts). 8. Genetic testing of children: Lainie Friedman Ross (University of Chicago). 9. Mapping the human genome and "Monster Mythology": George J. Annas (Boston University). 10. The moral status of the gene: Mary Anne Warren (San Francisco State University). 11. The ethical use of human embryonic stem cells in research and therapy: John Harris (University of Manchester). 12. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and embryo selection: Bonnie Steinbock (State University of New York at Albany). 13. Individual autonomy and genetic choice: Matthew Clayton (Brunel University). 14. Cloning and public policy: Ruth Macklin (Albert Einstein College of Medicine). 15. Sex-selection: The feminist response: Diemut Bubeck (London School of Economics). 16. Creating perfect people: Philip Kitcher (Columbia University). 17. Genetics and personal identity: Carol Rovane (Columbia University). 18. Genetic determinism and gene selection: Richard Dawkins (University of Oxford and New College). 19. The "Darwin Wars" and the human self image: Janet Radcliffe Richards (University College London. 20. Religion and Gene Therapy: Gerald McKenny (Rice University). 21. ‘Race', genetics and human difference: Hussein Kassim (University of London). 22. Self-ownership, begetting and germ-line information: Hillel Steiner (University of Manchester). 23. Justice, genetics and lifestyles: Inez de Beaufort (Erasmus University). 24. Commercial exploitation of the human genome: Ruth Chadwick (Lancaster University) and Adam Hedgecoe (University College London). 25. Forensic DNA typing: David Wasserman (University of Maryland). 26. Privacy and genetics: Madison Powers (Georgetown University). 27. DNA banking: Bartha Maria Knoppers (University of Montreal). 28. Genetic difference in the workplace: Michael Yesley (Los Alamos National Laboratory). 29. The insurance market and discriminatory practices: Tom Sorell (University of Ethics). 30. Legal and ethical issues in biotechnology patenting: Pilar Ossorio (American Medical Association. 31. Patented genes: Mark Sagoff (University of Maryland, College Park). 32. Property, patents, and genetic material: Stephen Munzer (University of California, Los Angeles). 33. Genetic screening from a public health perspective: Scott Burris (Temple University) and Lawrence Gostin (Georgetown University). Afterword: Sir David Weatherall (University of Oxford). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Prenatal Person
Book SynopsisA host of ethical questions has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. This text helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers to find answers to these questions.Trade Review"The Prenatal Person is a welcome contribution to dialogue between adherents of Christian and secular approaches to controversial bioethical issues about the beginning of human life. It is refreshing to find a Catholic scholar addressing these issues in a way that does not rely heavily on religious teachings that only a Catholic could be expected to accept. This is a book I will recommend to my students, so that they can consider a reasoned approach that is very different to my own." Peter Singer, Princeton University "...there are many useful insights and The Prenatal Person is helped by attention to detail in medical matters." The TabletTable of ContentsPreface. Acknow;edgments. Part I: Foundations. 1. Morality for persons. Utilitarianism. Contemporary Concept of Person. Traditional Concept of Person. Survival of Traditional Morality. 2. Life, Health, Ethics and The Bible. Biblical Interpretations and Bioethics. Life, Health, Sickness and Death: Old Testament. Life and Healing: New Testament. Lilfe After Death in the Bible. Relevance of the Bible for Health Ethics. 3. Ethical Principles for Health Care. Christian Vision of Human Dignity. Respect for Human Life. Duty of Reasonable Care of Health and Life. Doing Good and Permitting Harm. Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals. Christian and Secular Ethicists in a Democracy. Part II: Ethical Issues. 4. Human Embryo. Beginning of the Embryo. Research and Clinical Use of Embryos. Respect for the Embryo. Ethical Evaluation of the Use of Embryos in Research and Clinical Practice. 5. The Pregnant Woman and Her Fetus. Support for Pregnant Women. Embryonic and Fetal Mortality and Morbidity. Induced Abortion. Long-term Sequelae of Abortion. Fetus with Anencephaly. Ethical Evaluation of Issues During Pregnancy. 6. Infertility and Artificial Reproductive Technology. Infertility. Assisted Reproductive Technology and Ethics. 7. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis. Prevalence of Fetal Congenital Malformations. Pregnant Women's Anxieties. Current Procedures. Therapeutic Benefits. Ethical Evaluation of Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis. 8. The Fetus. Fetal Therapies. Use of Fetal Tissue. Fetal Pain. Care of the Fetus and Ethics. 9. Newborns. Breastfeeding. Perinatal Mortality. Low Birthweight Babies. Delivery for HIV Infected Pregnant Women. Noenatal Transplants. Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Newborns. Notes. Select Bibliography. Glossary. Index.
£98.96
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Prenatal Person
Book SynopsisA host of ethical questions has arisen recently in response to the development of new reproductive technologies. This text helps students of theology, philosophy and health studies, as well as lay readers to find answers to these questions.Trade Review"The Prenatal Person is a welcome contribution to dialogue between adherents of Christian and secular approaches to controversial bioethical issues about the beginning of human life. It is refreshing to find a Catholic scholar addressing these issues in a way that does not rely heavily on religious teachings that only a Catholic could be expected to accept. This is a book I will recommend to my students, so that they can consider a reasoned approach that is very different to my own." Peter Singer, Princeton University "...there are many useful insights and The Prenatal Person is helped by attention to detail in medical matters." The TabletTable of ContentsPreface. Acknow;edgments. Part I: Foundations. 1. Morality for persons. Utilitarianism. Contemporary Concept of Person. Traditional Concept of Person. Survival of Traditional Morality. 2. Life, Health, Ethics and The Bible. Biblical Interpretations and Bioethics. Life, Health, Sickness and Death: Old Testament. Life and Healing: New Testament. Lilfe After Death in the Bible. Relevance of the Bible for Health Ethics. 3. Ethical Principles for Health Care. Christian Vision of Human Dignity. Respect for Human Life. Duty of Reasonable Care of Health and Life. Doing Good and Permitting Harm. Responsibilities of Healthcare Professionals. Christian and Secular Ethicists in a Democracy. Part II: Ethical Issues. 4. Human Embryo. Beginning of the Embryo. Research and Clinical Use of Embryos. Respect for the Embryo. Ethical Evaluation of the Use of Embryos in Research and Clinical Practice. 5. The Pregnant Woman and Her Fetus. Support for Pregnant Women. Embryonic and Fetal Mortality and Morbidity. Induced Abortion. Long-term Sequelae of Abortion. Fetus with Anencephaly. Ethical Evaluation of Issues During Pregnancy. 6. Infertility and Artificial Reproductive Technology. Infertility. Assisted Reproductive Technology and Ethics. 7. Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis. Prevalence of Fetal Congenital Malformations. Pregnant Women's Anxieties. Current Procedures. Therapeutic Benefits. Ethical Evaluation of Prenatal Screening and Diagnosis. 8. The Fetus. Fetal Therapies. Use of Fetal Tissue. Fetal Pain. Care of the Fetus and Ethics. 9. Newborns. Breastfeeding. Perinatal Mortality. Low Birthweight Babies. Delivery for HIV Infected Pregnant Women. Noenatal Transplants. Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Newborns. Notes. Select Bibliography. Glossary. Index.
£37.00
Harvard University Press Contested Commodities The Trouble with Trade in
Book SynopsisHow far should society go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services? Radin addresses this controversial issue in an exploration of contested commodification. As a philosophical pragmatist, the author argues for an incomplete commodification, in which some contested things can be bought and sold, but only under regulated circumstances.Trade ReviewRadin's book is both complex in structure and highly nuanced in argument. Essentially it is a critique of existing theories of commodification that develops a distinctive approach to understanding commodification...Radin, like liberal political theorists, seeks a middle way between universalized commodification and universalized noncommodification, instead of a thesis of compartmentalized commodification she offers a thesis of 'incomplete commodification'...[An] insightful and rewarding book. -- Deryck Beyleveld * Journal of Law and Society *In this thought-provoking book Margaret Jane Radin asks us to consider whether there are some areas of social life which should be off-limits to the market, and whether some human interactions should be exempted from market-style forms of description and analysis. Although Radin is not the first theorist to address these issues, her eloquently written book contains some of the most sophisticated treatment they have received thus far. She convincingly makes the point that unless we transcend those models of human behaviour which characterize all human interactions as market exchanges, we may find ourselves unable to engage in the forms of valuing required for the maintenance and promotion of a humane society...The book represents a significant contribution to debate about the role of markets and market ideology in modern democratic polities. Future discussions of these issues will undoubtedly be influenced by Radin's work. -- A. J. Walsh * Philosophical Quarterly *Margaret Radin asks, why not put everything up for sale? Her answer is that doing so would impair human flourishing by compromising the social contexts needed for personhood. She offers a general approach to determining the ethical limits of markets and shows how it works in cases ranging from organ sales, prostitution, and commercial surrogate motherhood to the 'free marketplace of ideas,' compensation in torts, and public choice theories of democracy. Radin's contributions to this controversy are consistently illuminating and through provoking...For anyone interested in the ethical limitations of markets, this book is required reading. -- Elizabeth Anderson * Ethics *What does it say about us, and what does it do to us, when we talk about people as commodities to be traded in the market? Radin's profound, subtle, and disturbing book asks how the texture of our human world may be altered by ways of speaking and thinking, apparently innocuous and nicely scientific, that we import from market economics and use to characterize non-market behavior. A distinguished writer about property law, Radin avoids facile answers and stresses the complexity of the issue. Nonetheless, she leaves her reader with a warning: the models we use shape the people we may become. One day we may find to our grief (or, worse still, lack of grief) that our intellectual inventions have reinvented our world. -- Martha Nussbaum, University of ChicagoProfessor Radin has brought very considerable intellectual courage and perspicacity to bear on one of the most vexing and central issues in any liberal, market-based society--where should the market (and market rhetoric) end, and politics begin in the allocation of scarce resources? Law and economics scholars, who more or less assume the virtues of the private market, in most contexts, will be especially challenged by Radin's anlysis. Her book is also beautifully written and displays an elegance and lucidity that is absent in much modern legal scholarship. -- Michael J. Trebilcock, University of TorontoAt a time when belief in markets is ascendant throughout the world, Contested Commodities challenges--at the most fundamental level--the very idea of exchanging things for money. Margaret Jane Radin's arguments are subtle and nuanced, and her central claim about the potentially dehumanizing effects of exchange is powerful and important. No one in recent decades has made this case against the dominance of markets as well as Radin. -- David Strauss, University of Chicago
£37.36
Harvard University Press Exposed
Book SynopsisDemocrats and Republicans fight endlessly over health care, but neither side disputes one of the system’s most basic flaws: the foisting on patients of substantial costs through deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance. Marshalling a decade of research, Christopher Robertson shows why this model is dysfunctional and offers ideas for improvement.Trade ReviewRead this important and timely book. Then send it to every politician and health policy wonk you know. Your financial solvency and health depend on their learning what this book teaches. -- Arthur L. Caplan, NYU Langone Medical CenterA masterful forensic dissection of the self-imposed plague of health care financing, and options for potential cures. A must-read for all health care students, leaders, and elected officials. -- Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United StatesIn this sweeping and superb book, Robertson exposes the dark side of an appealing American narrative: that giving insured patients ‘cost-sharing’ responsibilities is good for us all. Exposed reveals that doing so creates problems much bigger than the one it aims to solve. -- Michelle M. Mello, Stanford Law SchoolExposed forcefully and persuasively demolishes the shibboleth that the so-called ‘cost-share’ elements of insurance in the U.S. cut costs and improve healthcare decisions and outcomes. A must-read for anyone interested in making sense of the morass of U.S. healthcare. -- George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon UniversityA powerful argument against patient cost-sharing. Through extensive data, international experiences, and a deep dive into theory and philosophy, Exposed convincingly demonstrates that charging sick people is not only a blatantly unfair practice, but one that also has little financial benefit and risks further health impairment. -- Thomas Rice, UCLA Fielding School of Public HealthAn important addition to a debate that is sure to be front and center in the 2020 elections. -- Glenn Altschuler * Florida Courier *Compassionate, timely, content heavy, and incredibly well written…After reading it, one hopes that Robertson, one of the true expert voices in health law and policy, continues engineering creative ideas for years and years to come. -- Isaac D. Buck * Journal of Legal Medicine *
£32.36
Princeton University Press Superstition Belief in the Age of Science
Book SynopsisArgues that superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture. This title asks why people persist in superstitious convictions long after science has shown them to be ill-founded. It examines the controversies and concludes that science is the only way we have of understanding the world.Trade Review"Park writes with bemusement at human folly but also with outrage at the misappropriation of science."--Robert A. Segal, Times Higher Education "Park uses his personal story to great effect to champion scientific thinking. He also gets under its skin, to explain how, as well as what, science delivers."--Mark Henderson, Times (London) "For Princeton physicist Robert Park, science serves as a rapier for skewering all beliefs not sustained by empirical proof. Predictably, religion heads the list of targets ... [Park] pits experimental rigor not only against the creeds of antiquity but also against the irrationality of New Age gurus who evangelize for alternative medicines or extrasensory perception... Sure to spark sharp debate."--Bryce Christensen, Booklist "Parks' main target in the first part of his book is Christianity, especially its creationist and so-called intelligent-design offshoots. However, the world's other religions do not emerge unscathed... He takes on New Age beliefs, reserving particular scorn for those practitioners who add the word 'quantum' to unrelated topics like 'healing' to give themselves an imprimatur of scientific respectability... Both religious and non-religious scientists are sure to find something of interest in the rest."--Physics World "Genial anecdotal tales introduce each chapter, which are then followed with the cutting criticism of various pseudobelief systems. Dogmatic in his emphasis that science is the only way of knowing, Park weighs faith-based beliefs against scientific evidence and makes no allowance for other ways of knowing... The controversial content should provide debate material for the high school and young college crowd as well as the general public."--R.A. Hoots, Choice "With acerbic wit, Park, professor of physics at the University of Maryland, asks why we believe weird things even when no evidence supports our claims... A humanist and naturalist, Park asserts that science rejects appeal to authority in favor of empirical evidence."--Roy E. Perry, The Tennessean Bob Park is a sceptic's sceptic, a consummate critical thinker, a no-nonsense scientist who knows baloney when he detects it... Superstition is more than an entertaining romp through the weird and wonderful. It is an important contribution to the sceptical literature ... that every scientist needs to be aware of."--Michael Shermer, Nature Physics "Guns blazing, Park hunts down what he calls pseudo-science... I found myself enjoying much of this feisty book as a kind of entertainment that raises serious questions."--Evelyn Juers, AustralianTable of ContentsIntroduction: Lessons from a tree vii CHAPTER ONE: A BIGGER PRIZE 1 In which we discover scientists of faith CHAPTER TWO: THE SECRET OF LIFE 23 In which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives CHAPTER THREE: MIRACLE AT COLUMBIA 56 In which both sides pray for victory CHAPTER FOUR: GIVING UP THE GHOST 79 In which we search for the soul CHAPTER FIVE: THE SILENT ARMY 93 In which we search for an afterlife CHAPTER SIX: THE TSUNAMI GOD 104 In which the innocent suffer CHAPTER SEVEN: THE NEW AGE 116 In which anything goes CHAPTER EIGHT: SCHRODINGER'S GRAVE 129 In which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition CHAPTER NINE: THE BARBARY DUCK 142 In which the body heals itself CHAPTER TEN: THE DEER 161 In which the placebo effect is explained CHAPTER ELEVEN: THE MORAL LAW 188 In which we instinctively know right from wrong CHAPTER TWELVE: THE LAST BUTTERFLY 202 In which there is no place else to go Bibliography 217 Index 221
£16.19
Princeton University Press Taming the Beloved Beast
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOne of Library Journal's Best Sci-Tech Books, Health Sciences category for 2009 Recommended Reading, 2011 James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives "No one who comes to Taming the Beloved Beast with an open mind can deny the intellectual and ethical power of the questions he poses. He probes issues central to resolving the enormous problems and inequities--not to mention the looming financial threats--that bedevil American medical care."--Beryl Lieff Benderly, Science "While bringing insightful ethical, social, political and economic perspectives to this timely, well-documented discourse of the ballooning costs of American health care and Medicare, Callahan concentrates on the growing costs of medical technology, which, along with uncontrolled governmental healthcare spending, threaten to drag this country into financial crisis... This excellent overview of reaching the goal of universal health care is a good resource for anyone concerned with the future of health care and its economics."--Library Journal "The rising cost of health care has preoccupied policy makers and the public for decades. Callahan contends that the principal cause of rising costs lies in Americans' infatuation with new medical technologies... Callahan argues that the U.S. must rethink the goals of medical technologies and accept new limits on the availability and appropriate use of expensive medical treatments."--Choice "This book reflects the author's expertise not only as a researcher but also as a philosopher. He presents his arguments, discusses alternatives, and anticipates counterarguments, all with ample citations... [T]his book will engage readers seeking to gain insight on health care reform and cost control from the perspective of a pragmatic philosopher."--Leslie R. Pyenson, Psychiatric ServicesTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 CHAPter 1: Medicare on the Ropes 10 CHAPter 2: Taming the Beloved Beast: Medical Technology 37 CHAPter 3: Getting Serious about Costs and Technology 67 CHAPter 4: Competition: The Fix That Will Fail 92 CHAPter 5: The Cohabitation of Medicine and Commerce 120 CHAPter 6: "Medical Necessity": An All-But-Useless Concept 143 CHAPter 7: Redefining "Medical Necessity": From Individual Good to Common Good 171 CHAPter 8: Getting Out from Under: The Politics of Pain 201 Coda 229 Notes 235 Index 257
£20.90
John Wiley & Sons Inc Rationing
Book SynopsisThis unique publication, co-published with the King''s Fund, is about talk and action in health care rationing. It presents the latest thinking and practical experience in rationing today. Read about why rationing is inevitable, look at what the public thinks, and decide for yourself what action should be taken in the futureTable of ContentsIntroduction and context: introduction, Bill New; The rationing agenda in the NHS, Bill New; Responses to the rationing agenda, Jo Lenaghan. Section 1 Talk: The inevitability of rationing in the NHS, Chris Heginbotham; Public opinion and rationing - a review of the evidence, Jack Kneeshaw. The rationing debate: Devising a package of health care services the NHS is responsible for - for, Bill New; against, Rudolph Kelin; Maximising the health of the whole community - for, A.J. Culyer; against, John Harris; Rationing health care by age - for, Alan Williams; against, J. Grimley Evans; Central government should have a greater role in rationing decisions - for, Jo Lenaghan; against, Stephen Harrison; Rationing within the NHS should be explicit - for, Len Doyal; against, Jo Coast; Direct public and patient involvement in rationing - the possibilities for direct public involvement, Anna Coote; - the possibilities for direct patient involvement, Heather Goodare; The moral limits to public and patient involvement, Len Doyal. Section 2 Action: New Zealand priority criteria project, Hadorn, Holmes; Setting priorities - can Britain learn from Sweden? McKee, Figueras; Setting priorities - is there a role for citizen's juries? Lenaghan et al; The Asbury draft policy on ethical use of resources, Crisp et al; Responses to Asbury proposal, Thomasma et al; A purchaser experience of managing new, expensive drugs - interferon beta, Rous et al; How can hospitals ration drugs? Bochner et al; responses to Boshner et al.
£57.90
John Wiley & Sons Inc Consent Rights and Choices in Health Care for
Book SynopsisOffers guidance on the ethical and legal issues that arise in the health care of patients under 18 years of age. This book reflects the questions most commonly raised by health professionals, including questions about consent, refusal of treatment and confidentiality.Table of ContentsList of cases. List of statutes and regulations. Membership of the Steering Group. Editorial Board. Introduction. An ethical approach to treating children and young people. The law on children, consent and medical treatment: England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The law on children, consent and medical treatment: Scotland. Confidentiality. Involving children and assessing a child's competence. Refusal of treatment and decisions not to treat. Mental health care of children and young people. Sensitive or controversial procedures. Research and innovative treatment. Health care in schools. Summary of good practice. Appendix 1: Examination or assessment for child protection purposes. Appendix 2: Useful addresses. Index
£44.60
John Wiley & Sons Inc Informed Consent in Medical Research
Book SynopsisThis is a comprehensive discussion of the ethical issues involved in informing patients of their rights and participation in medical treatment and research. The 30 chapters provide reference on a subject of major importance in medical ethics.Table of ContentsThe Nuremberg Code and the Helsinki Declaration. The historical background. Human guinea pigs and the ethics of experimentation. Henry K Beecher and Marice Pappworth: Character in the development of modern research ethics. Extracts from Pappwroth and Beecher. Learning from unethical research: some recent scandals. Informed consent: the intricacies. Psychological support for patients undergoing breast cancer surgery. Evaluation of a stroke family care worker. Does HIV status influence the outcome of patients admitted to a surgical intensive care unit?. Doyal's original. Tobias' original. Letters from BMJ relating to the above articles. Other perspectives. Thrombolytic treatment for acute ischaemic stroke. Benatar and Benetar. Regulating informed consent within medical research. Medical research and the competent adult. Clinical research with children. Clinical research within psychiatry. Genetic research. Human reproduction and assisted conception. Epidemiological research. Surgical research. Issue in HIV and STDs. Human rights. Clinical trials, informed consent, and the boundaries of therapeutic discretion. Double standards. Rights and responsiblities of the individual. The teacher's perspective. Healthy volunteers. The consumer's view. The role of the effective communication in obtaining informed consent. Concluding analysis
£105.26
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Genetic Ethics
Book SynopsisColin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic screening, gene therapy and genome editing might be used to promote equality of opportunity, reproductive freedom, healthy aging, and the prevention and treatment of disease. But these technologies also raise a host of ethical questions: Is the idea of genetically engineering humans a morally objectionable form of eugenics? Should parents undergoing IVF be permitted to screen embryos for the sex of their offspring? Would it be ethical to alter the rate at which humans age, greatly increasing longevity at a time when the human population is already at potentially unsustainable levels? Farrelly applies an original virtue ethics framework to assess these and other challenges posed by the genetic revolution. Chapters discuss virtue ethics in relation to eugenics, infectious and chronic disease, evolutionary biology, epigenetics, happiness, reproductive freedom and longevity. This fresh approach creates a roadmap for thinking ethically about technological progress that will be of practical use to ethicists and scientists for years to come. Accessible in tone and compellingly argued, this book is an ideal introduction for students of bioethics, applied ethics, biomedical sciences, and related courses in philosophy and life sciences.Trade Review“Past meets future. Farrelly uses the wisdom of the ancients in virtue ethics to provide a compelling analysis of the greatest challenges of our time. Virtue ethics has struggled to offer concrete guidance to action in practical ethics, but, in this new account, Farrelly shows how six virtues can advance debate on the most controversial issues and shed light on what is good for human beings.” Julian Savulescu, University of Oxford“Colin Farrelly’s Genetic Ethics fills a significant gap in the vast literature on its subject.” Allen Buchanan, Duke University
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Genetic Ethics
Book SynopsisColin Farrelly contemplates the various ethical and social quandaries raised by the genetic revolution. Recent biomedical advances such as genetic screening, gene therapy and genome editing might be used to promote equality of opportunity, reproductive freedom, healthy aging, and the prevention and treatment of disease. But these technologies also raise a host of ethical questions: Is the idea of genetically engineering humans a morally objectionable form of eugenics? Should parents undergoing IVF be permitted to screen embryos for the sex of their offspring? Would it be ethical to alter the rate at which humans age, greatly increasing longevity at a time when the human population is already at potentially unsustainable levels? Farrelly applies an original virtue ethics framework to assess these and other challenges posed by the genetic revolution. Chapters discuss virtue ethics in relation to eugenics, infectious and chronic disease, evolutionary biology, epigenetics, happiness, reproductive freedom and longevity. This fresh approach creates a roadmap for thinking ethically about technological progress that will be of practical use to ethicists and scientists for years to come. Accessible in tone and compellingly argued, this book is an ideal introduction for students of bioethics, applied ethics, biomedical sciences, and related courses in philosophy and life sciences.
£16.14
University of British Columbia Press Ethics and Aging
Book SynopsisThis book reflects the complexity of ethical questions, but develops them in relation to a single general theme: that of the involvement of the elderly in the design of social policy and the research which affects them.Trade ReviewIt is a very useful aid for professionals in gerontology or in social work, for ethicists, ministers of religion, and for all who are connected with the formation of our perceptions on this most valuable and often most neglected segment of our society. -- Béla I. Somfai * Journal of Religious Gerontology *An interesting collection of essays that should appeal especially to those involved in the provision of care for aged people, or in the analysis of social policy, or in the development of ethical concepts which seem relevant in the modern hospital environment. -- Sidney Sax * Bioethics *A richness of insights that only an interdisciplinary approach can give. -- Helga Kuhse * Bioethic News *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Contributors 1. Introduction to Principal Themes and Issues / Earl R. Winklerand James E. Thornton Part One: General Perspectives 2. On Reaching a New Agenda: Self-Determination and Aging / JaneA. Boyajian 3. Ethics and Aging: Trends and Problems in the Clinical Setting /David Roy 4. Ethical Aspects of Aging: Justice, Freedom, and Responsibility /John C. Bennett 5. Paradigms of Aging: Growth versus Decline / James E. Birrenand Candace A. Stacey 6. Cognitive Intervention in Later Life: Philosophical Issues /David F. Hultsch and Jane H. McEwan 7. The Calculus of Discrimination: Discriminatory ResourceAllocation for an Aging Population / Eike-Henner W. Kluge 8. Population Aging and the Economy: Some Issues in ResourceAllocation / Frank T. Denton and Byron G. Spencer Part Two: Specific Issues 9. The Right to Participate: Ending Discrimination Against theElderly / Donald J. MacDougall 10. Society and Essentials for Well-Being: Social Policy and theProvision of Care / Neena L. Chappell 11. Foregoing Treatment: Killing versus Letting Die, and the Issueof Non-Feeding / Earl R. Winkler 12. Foregoing Life-Sustaining Treatment: The Canadian Law ReformCommission and the President's Commission / AlisterBrowne 13. Proxy Consent for Research on the Incompetent Elderly /Barry F. Brown 14. Gerontology's Challenge from Its Research Population /Beverly Burnside 15. Civil Liberties and the Elderly Patient / Arthur Schafer 16.Narrative, Perspective, and Aging / C.G. Prado Part Three Bibliography / James E. Thornton, Anne D. Evans, MeganStuart-Stubbs, Gerry Bates General Index Index of Names
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Medicine and Morality
Book SynopsisThe first historical study of morality and science in Canadian medicine, Medicine and Morality shows how moments of doubt in doctors’ impartiality resulted in changes to how medicine was done, and even to the very definition of medical practice itself.Trade ReviewKang’s analysis illuminates our current anxiety about the proper place of health care in public life. -- Viviane Fairbank * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Toward a Theory of Medical Disinterestedness2 A Brotherhood of Scientific Gentlemen3 Building Bridges, Making Amends4 The Paradox of Medical PublishingConclusionNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index
£23.39
Cornell University Press Bedside Manners
Book SynopsisA play about workplace relations among physicians, nurses, others who work in health care, and patients—and how their interaction affects the quality of patient care, for better or worse.Trade ReviewWhile many health care professionals lament the poor communication between doctors and nurses who jointly care for patients, the path to improve this remains unclear. In Bedside Manners, journalist, author, and visiting professor at the University School of Nursing Suzanne Gordon came up with a novel idea: use theater to tackle the intricacies of doctor-nurse relationships—where they succeed, where they fail, and where there are better solutions. -- Jessica Bylander, Senior Editor * Health Affairs *Table of ContentsForeword, by Lucian L. Leape, MD Acknowledgments Introduction, by Suzanne Gordon Part 1. Bedside Manners: The Play, by Suzanne Gordon and Lisa Hayes Cast of Characters About the Staging List of Scenes with Characters Introducing the Performance The Play Part 2. Bedside Manners: The Workbook, by Suzanne Gordon and Scott Reeves Introduction to the Workbook Producing the Play Actor's and Director's Tool Kit Production Checklist The Play as Interprofessional Curriculum Role-Play Activities Notes About the Authors
£18.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Dementia and Aging
Book SynopsisPart Three lays out societal choices regarding the allocation of resources for treatment, care, and research on dementia.Trade Review" Dementia and Aging will become a standard introduction to what Lewis Thomas called 'the disease of the century'... Gerontologists will benefit from reading [this] collection [dealing] with a multifaceted problem from diverse perspectives. Gerontologist The diversity of thought and opinions represented in this book is its major strength. the contributing authors are..acknowledged experts in their respective fields; the chapters are well written and edited. Each section provides insights into an important aspect of Alzheimer disease. Opposing views on euthanasia and alternative proposals for health care reform are fairly presented. the reader is left with a better understanding of the complex and evolving nature of decision-making required in the care of patients with Alzheimer disease. Annals of Internal MedicineTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceList of ContributorsChapter 1. The Challenges of DementiaPart I: Biomedical, Experiential, and Caregiving PerspectivesChapter 2. Dementia: The Medical PerspectiveChapter 3. The Experience of Being DementedChapter 4. Seeing and Knowing Dementia Chapter 5. Human Dignity, Dementia, and the Moral Basis of CaregivingPart II: Treatment Decisions, Advance Directives, and EuthanasiaChapter 6. Autonomy Revisited: The Limits of Anticipatory ChoicesChapter 7. A Critical View of Ethical Dilemmas in DementiaChapter 8. Mercy Killing of Elderly People with Dementia: A CounterproposalChapter 9. Euthanasia in Alzheimer's Disease?Part III: Caring For People With Dementia: Justice and Public PolicyChapter 10. Dementia and Appropriate Care: Allocating Scarce ResourcesChapter 11. The Politics of Developing Appropriate Care for Dementia Chapter 12. Alzheimer's Disease: Current Policy InitiativesIndex
£22.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Ethics in an Aging Society
Book SynopsisThe story which unfolds in the book is a story both about the power of those ideals and about inescapable facts of old age that make those ideals problematic."Trade ReviewMoody's questioning and reassessment of the bioethics of geriatric care will provoke thoughtful argument. New England Journal of Medicine The main strength of Moody's work is the wealth of concrete detail he offers to demonstrate that, given the complexity of actual situations, abstract notions of rights and autonomy cannot be relied on for satisfactory analyses. Ethics A useful resource for particular areas of interest such as nursing home placement and consent in the nursing home setting. Health Progress A formidable, knowledgeable, wide-ranging treatise on the myriad ethical problems that confront us all in our now rapidly aging society. Pharos
£26.10
