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Mentis Verlag GmbH Eigenverantwortung im Gesundheitswesen
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Independent The Ethical Hacker: Unraveling Technology
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Pari Publishing The Way We Die: Brain Death, Vegetative State,
Book SynopsisRapid advances in modern medicine and diagnostic techniques have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Where once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat, today patients can be kept alive for months or even years hooked up to a respirator and feeding tube. Ivan and Melrose carefully explain the various medical processes involved in death and dying. In so doing they also face the many ethical, moral and legal dilemmas that confront doctors today, as well as the decisions that may have to be taken by relatives. What, they ask, is the meaning of "life" when large areas of a person's brain have suffered irreversible damage? And what of the economic quandary when valuable hospital beds are occupied by people in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery?Table of ContentsHistory of the definitions of death Coma Persistent vegetative state The "Do not resuscitate" order Brain death Harvesting and transplanting organs Dying with dignity and palliative care The living will The right to die Euthanasia and assisted suicide Near-death experiences Life after death? Body, Mind and Soul
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Springer The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical
Book SynopsisSince its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel, experts in the philosophy of psychiatry propose original essays that explore the main issues related to the DSM-5, such as the still weak validity and reliability of the classification, the scientific status of its revision process, the several cultural, gender and sexist biases that are apparent in the criteria, the comorbidity issue and the categorical vs. dimensional debate. For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument – a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties.Trade Review“The essays in Demazeux’s and Singy’s volume are all about the DSM-5, but they also address many distinct aspects of human life, from research design to moral values, to sexuality, to grief. … the volume–and the intensity of the criticisms it contains–eloquently demonstrates the importance of the DSM to modern life. This in turn proves the importance of the collection, which contributes to our understanding of both the DSM and ourselves.” (Brent M. Kious, Metascience, Vol. 25, 2016)“The present volume of philosophical commentary on this ambitious project offers a range of contributions to the debate about psychiatric nosology, a few of which are truly outstanding. … this volume is recommended reading for specialists and non-specialists alike interested in the problems inherent in constructing any useful taxonomy of mental conditions and particularly for insight into the science, history, and politics that have shaped the current DSM-5.” (Mark J. Sedler, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, ndpr.nd.edu, August, 2015)“This is a collection of essays from different authors exploring the main problems of the DSM-5. … The purpose is to review and discuss the methodological and philosophical weaknesses, as well cultural bias, in the DSM-5. … one definitely worth checking out if you deal with the DSM at all.” (Brett C. Plyler, Doody's Book Reviews, July, 2015)Table of ContentsIntroduction; Steeves Demazeux and Patrick Singy.- Part I. General issues.- Chapter 1. The Ideal of Scientific Progress and the DSM; Steeves Demazeux.- Chapter 2. DSM-5 and Research Concerning Mental Illness; Jeffrey Poland.- Chapter 3. DSM-5 and Psychiatry’s Second Revolution: Descriptive vs. Theoretical Approaches to Psychiatric Classification; Jonathan Tsou.- Chapter 4. DSM-5: The Delayed Demise of Descriptive Diagnosis; Stuart A. Kirk, David Cohen, Tomi Gomory.- Chapter 5. Must Disorders Cause Harm? The Changing Stance of the DSM; Rachel Cooper.- Chapter 6.‘Deviant Deviance’: Cultural Diversity in DSM-5; Dominic Murphy.- Part II. Specific issues.- Chapter 7. Danger and Difference: The Stakes of Hebephilia; Patrick Singy.- Chapter 8. Sexual Dysfunctions and Asexuality in DSM-5; Andrew Hinderliter.- Chapter 9. The Crippling Legacy of Monomanias in DSM-5; John Z. Sadler.- Chapter 10. The Loss of Grief: Science and Pseudoscience in the Debate Over DSM-5’s Elimination of the Bereavement Exclusion; Jerome Wakefield.- Chapter 11. Against Hyponarrating Grief: Incompatible Research and Treatment Interests in the DSM-5; Şerife Tekin.- Chapter 12. RDoC: Thinking Outside the DSM Box without Falling into a Reductionist Trap; Luc Faucher and Simon Goyer.- Chapter 13. DSM-5 and the Reconceptualization of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: An Anthropological Perspective from the Neuroscience Laboratory; Baptiste Moutaud.
£104.49
Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd Commercializing Nanomedicine: Industrial
Book SynopsisThe authors of this book address all individuals approaching the study of nanomedicine for the first time ever, as well as those already profitably working in the field either as scientists, doctors, lawyers, or entrepreneurs. Teeming with accurate, up-to-date, and enjoyable content, the book describes some enlightening facts and figures pertaining to the growing field of nanomedicine. Open problems and potentialities are identified and discussed, offering a series of forecasts regarding its global impact on healthcare systems in the coming two decades. This introduction is followed by three different sections: (a) one purely scientific, which delves deep into areas as diverse as proteomics or delivery systems for nanodrugs, demonstrating how nanotechnology is reshaping the way diagnosis and treatment of diseases are made; (b) one focused on the ethical challenges that governments and companies are facing or will have to face in order to protect patients’ rights; and (c) one entirely dedicated to the legal and entrepreneurial issues that are driving this entire medical revolution. In the pages of this lucidly written book, scientists and managers will certainly find the need-to-have tool on their desk to thrive and succeed in the commercialization of nanomedicine.Table of ContentsSection I Nanomedicine. Section II Nanoethics. Section III IP and Commercialization.
£36.09
Springer-Verlag GmbH Artificial Intelligence in Medical Diagnostics
£89.99
The University of Chicago Press The Nazi Symbiosis
Book SynopsisUnder the swastika, German scientists descended into the moral abyss, perpetrating heinous medical crimes at Auschwitz and at euthanasia hospitals. But why did biomedical researchers accept such a bargain? This title offers an account of the myriad ways human heredity and Nazi politics reinforced each other before and during the Third Reich.Trade Review"This well-written study helps elucidate the relationship between science and politics in the Third Reich and has enough details to satisfy scholars. At the same time, it provides an insightful narrative that a lay audience will find accessible and that will serve as a useful learning aid for students." (German Studies Review)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press What Would You Do
Book SynopsisHow has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? This book addresses these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that the author's ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked.Trade Review"Bosk provides in these pages a rich and rigorous account of the ways in which medical ethics, ethnography, and social science illuminate the human condition. He is the finest ethnographer of his generation, and he offers to future generations a standard of ethnographic practice and reflection that is unrivaled in its appreciation of the nuances and complexities of making sense of people's lives." - Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College"
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The University of Chicago Press Intuition in Medicine
Book SynopsisIntuition is central to discussions about the nature of scientific and philosophical reasoning and what it means to be human. In this book, the author marshals his dual training as a physician and philosopher to examine the place of intuition in medicine.Trade Review"Hillel D. Braude's book is brilliant. There's nothing like it - this is a true, deep, scholarly, philosophical, historical work with real staying power." (Kathryn Montgomery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine)"
£47.50
The University of Chicago Press Saving Babies
Book SynopsisDrawing on observations and interviews with families, doctors, and policy actors, this book presents an ethnographic study of how parents and geneticists resolve the many uncertainties in screening newborns. It is suitable for scholars of medicine, public health, and public policy.
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The University of Chicago Press Lesser Harms
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The University of Chicago Press Behind Closed Doors
Book SynopsisAlthough the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. This book melds observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States.Trade Review"Behind Closed Doors is a novel and important addition to the literature on the governance of experimentation on human subjects. It will appeal to academic scholars in the history of science and medicine, sociology, bioethics, and postwar American history." (Gerald Kutcher, author of Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military)"
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Behind Closed Doors
Book SynopsisAlthough the subject of federally mandated Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) has been extensively debated, we actually do not know much about what takes place when they convene. This book melds observations of IRB meetings with the history of how rules for the treatment of human subjects were formalized in the United States.Trade Review"Behind Closed Doors is a novel and important addition to the literature on the governance of experimentation on human subjects. It will appeal to academic scholars in the history of science and medicine, sociology, bioethics, and postwar American history." (Gerald Kutcher, author of Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military)"
£30.00
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
£84.00
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
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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)"
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Untangling Twinning
Book SynopsisThe fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical embryos seems to defy the notion that prior to splitting an embryo can be a single human individual. Maureen Condic looks at the questions raised by human twinning based on a unique synthesis of molecular developmental biology and Aristotelian philosophy.Trade Review"Maureen L. Condic is a gifted scientist and writer, exhibiting both a mastery of the science as well as a conversance with the philosophical issues." —Francis J. Beckwith, author of Taking Rites Seriously"This book brings more biological knowledge to the philosophical discussion of twinning than any other that I know of." —Christopher Tollefsen, author of Lying and Christian Ethics"In this monograph, Condic offers an extensively referenced examination of the biological basis of human individuality. . . . The text will clarify biological concepts and ethical considerations for those who share Condic's interpretation of sperm-egg fusion as the start of human life, and for those who have reached a different conclusion." —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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Pennsylvania State University Press Clinical Ethics
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Clinical Ethics offers an engaging introduction to an array of ethical questions prominently featured in medical ethics classrooms. Graphic scenarios provide individual cases or situations—many based on clinical experience—that highlight the four principles of medical ethics. The scenarios speak to one another, enhancing students’ inquiry and understanding of the challenges of ethics, which raises questions rather than providing answers.”—Ellen Feder,author of Family Bonds: Genealogies of Race and Gender
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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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