Published December, 2018
By John McMillan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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This is the first book that explains how you actually go about doing good bioethics. John McMillan develops an account of the nature of bioethics; he reveals how a number of methodological spectres have obstructed bioethics; and then he shows how moral reason can be brought to bear upon practical issues via an 'empirical, Socratic' approach.

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Published February, 2015
By T. M. Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed-but not enough organs are available to meet demand. T. M. Wilkinson explores the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring organs. Key topics include the rights of the dead, the role of the family, and the sale of organs.

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Published January, 2015
By Katrien Devolder
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Embryonic stem cell research holds great promise for biomedical research, but involves the destruction of human embryos. Katrien Devolder explores the tension between the view that embryos should never be deliberately harmed, and the view that such research must go forward. She provides an in-depth analysis of major attempts to resolve the problem.

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Published November, 2011
By T. M. Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Transplantation is a medically successful and cost-effective way to treat people whose organs have failed-but not enough organs are available to meet demand. T. M. Wilkinson explores the major ethical problems raised by policies for acquiring organs. Key topics include the rights of the dead, the role of the family, and the sale of organs.

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Published July, 2009
By Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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In these twelve papers notable ethicists use the resources of ethical theory to illuminate important theoretical and practical topics, including the nature of public health, notions of community, population bioethics, the legitimate role of law, the use of cost-effectiveness as a methodology, vaccinations, and the nature of infectious disease.

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Published November, 2008
By Ronald M. Green, Aine Donovan and Steven A. Jauss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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The ethics of medical care and biomedical research are rapidly becoming global. This volume gathers leading bioethicists to explore many new questions raised by the internationalization of medical care and biomedical research. Topics covered include, amongst others, the impact of globalization and the relation of religion to global bioethics.

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Published September, 2008
By Madison Powers, Ruth Faden and Ruth R. Faden
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Published June, 2008
By Alan Cribb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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What is health policy for? Alan Cribb addresses this question in a way that cuts across disciplinary boundaries. His core argument is that biomedical ethics should draw upon public health values and ethics. He argues that everybody has some share of responsibility for health, including a responsibility for promoting greater health equality.

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Published May, 2008
By Lainie Friedman Ross
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Lainie Ross presents a rigorous critical investigation of the development of policy governing the involvement of children in medical research. She examines the shift in focus from protection of medical research subjects, enshrined in post-World War II legislation, to the current era in which access is assuming greater precedence.

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Published November, 2007
By Simona Giordano
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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Giordano presents the first full philosophical study of ethical issues in the treatment of anorexia and bulimia nervosa. She analyses these conditions, explores their complex causes, then addresses legal and ethical dilemmas such as a patient's refusal of life-saving treatment. Essential for anyone working on these much misunderstood conditions.

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