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  • Methods in Medical Ethics

    Second Edition

    by Jeremy Sugarman, Daniel P. Sulmasy, Ruth Faden, Alison Boyce, David DeGrazia, Tom L. Beauchamp, Diego Gracia, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Edmund D. Pellegrino0, Albert R. Jonsen1, Mark A. Hall2, Nancy M.P. King3, Susan E. Lederer4, Tod Chambers5, Raymond DeVries6, Holly A. Taylor7, Sara Chandros Hull8, Nancy E. Kass9, Patricia A. Marshall0, Barbara A. Koenig1, Robert A. Pearlman2, Helene E. Starks3, Marion Danis4, Laura Hanson5, Joanne M. Garrett6, David A. Asch7 ...
    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

    $38.69 USD

  • Bioethics Reenvisioned

    A Path toward Health Justice

    by Nancy M. P. King, Gail E. Henderson, Larry R. Churchill ...
    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

    $15.19 USD

  • Bioethics, Public Moral Argument, and Social Responsibility

    Edited by Nancy M.P. King, Michael J Hyde ...
    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

    $79.99 USD

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  • Ethical Dilemmas in Prenatal Diagnosis

    Edited by Tamara Fischmann, Elisabeth Hildt ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    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

    $143.09 USD

  • The Gene

    An Intimate History

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee ...
    The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BestsellerThe basis for the PBS Ken Burns Documentary The Gene: An Intimate HistoryNow includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee**’**s new book Song of the Cell!From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies—a fascinating history of the gene and “a magisterial account of how human minds have laboriously, ingen... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Crack In Creation

    Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution

    by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg ...
    BY THE WINNER OF THE 2020 NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY | Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize“A powerful mix of science and ethics . . . This book is required reading for every concerned citizen—the material it covers should be discussed in schools, colleges, and universities throughout the country.”— New York Review of BooksNot since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • BioCoder #8

    July 2015

    by O'Reilly Media, Inc. ...
    BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You’ll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you buildVisits to DIYbio laboratoriesProfiles of key people in the communityAnnouncements of events and other items of interestSafety pointers and tips about good ... Read more

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  • Bioethics for Beginners

    60 Cases and Cautions from the Moral Frontier of Healthcare

    by Glenn McGee ...
    How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Danger Within Us

    America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It

    by Jeanne Lenzer ...
    Did you know...Medical interventions have become the third leading cause of death in America.An estimated 10 percent of Americans are implanted with medical devices -- like pacemakers, artificial hips, cardiac stents, etc.The overwhelming majority of high-risk implanted devices have never undergone a single clinical trial.In The Danger Within Us, award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer brings these ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Modern Prometheus

    Editing the Human Genome with Crispr-Cas9

    by Jim Kozubek ...
    Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • An Error in Judgement

    by Dara Culhane ...
    On January 22, 1979, an eleven-year-old Native girl died of a ruptured appendix in an Alert Bay, B.C. hospital. The events that followed are chronicled here by Dara Culhane Speck, a member by marriage of the Nimpkish Indian Band in Alert Bay. She has relied mainly on interviews, anecdotes and public records to describe how this small, isolated Native community took on the local hospital, the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Ethics of Embryonic Stem Cell Research

    by Katrien Devolder ...
    Series series Issues in Biomedical Ethics
    Embryonic stem cell research holds unique promise for developing therapies for currently incurable diseases and conditions, and for important biomedical research. However, the process through which embryonic stem cells are obtained involves the destruction of early human embryos. Katrien Devolder focuses on the tension between the popular view that an embryo should never be deliberately harmed or ... Read more

    $62.09 USD