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    Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine

    The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers by bringing together moving narratives of illness, commentaries by physicians, debates about complex medical cases, and conceptually and empirically based writings by scholars in medicine, the social ... Read more

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  • The Social Medicine Reader, Volume II, Third Edition

    Differences and Inequalities, Volume 2

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  • Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility explores the role of democratically oriented argument in promoting public understanding and discussion of the benefits and burdens of biotechnological progress.The contributors examine moral and policy controversies surrounding biomedical technologies and their place in American society, beginning with an examination of discourse and ... Read more

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  • Beyond Regulations

    Ethics in Human Subjects Research

    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Across a broad range of disciplines — in medicine, social science, and the humanities — researchers, scholars, teachers, and administrators increasingly are looking for new ways to approach ethical issues in research with human subjects. Questions about how relationships between funders and researchers should affect research design, for example, or whether the potential benefits of research can ... Read more

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  • Bioethics Reenvisioned

    A Path toward Health Justice

    Series series Studies in Social Medicine
    Bioethics needs an expanded moral vision. Born in the ferment of the 1970s, the field responded to rapid developments in biomedical technology and injustices in clinical care and research. Since then, bioethics has predominantly focused on respect for autonomy, beneficence and nonmaleficence, and the zero-sum “lifeboat” ethics of distributive justice, applying these principles almost exclusively ... Read more

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  • Methods in Medical Ethics

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    Medical ethics draws upon methods from a wide array of disciplines, including anthropology, economics, epidemiology, health services research, history, law, medicine, nursing, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and theology.In this influential book, outstanding scholars in medical ethics bring these many methods together in one place to be systematically described, critiqued, and challenged. Newly ... Read more

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    Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we „playing God“ more and more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to societies ... Read more

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