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Although the field of bioethics is about 40 years old, sociologists are only now beginning to explore the ramifications of its appearance and growth.
The View from Here presents the best of recent work in bioethics, exploring: the profession of bioethics and its role in discussions about the means and ends of the life sciences; how ordinary questions become ′bioethical′ questions and why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists; variations in the manifestations of bioethics in different countries and health systems; the relationship between social science and bioethics and the effect of the rise of bioethics on the field of medical sociology.

The rich understanding of bioethics offered by this volume makes it an essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics.

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Although the field of bioethics is about 40 years old, sociologists are only now beginning to explore the ramifications of its appearance and growth.
The View from Here presents the best of recent work in bioethics, exploring: the profession of bioethics and its role in discussions about the means and ends of the life sciences; how ordinary questions become ′bioethical′ questions and why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists; variations in the manifestations of bioethics in different countries and health systems; the relationship between social science and bioethics and the effect of the rise of bioethics on the field of medical sociology.

The rich understanding of bioethics offered by this volume makes it an essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics.

Contents:

1. Social Science and Bioethics: The Way Forward: Raymond de Vries, Leigh Turner, Kristina Orfali and Charles Bosk.

2. Co–ordinating Ethical Clinical Trials: The Role of Research Coordinators in the Contract Research Industry: Jill A. Fisher.

3. The Many Meanings of Care in Clinical Research: Michele M. Easter, Gail E. Henderson, Arlene M. Davis, Larry R. Churchill and Nancy M. P. King.

4. The Field Worker s Fields: Ethics, Ethnography and Medical Sociology: Renée R. Anspach and Nissim Mizrachi.

5. Ethical Boundary–Work in the Embryonic Stem Cell Laboratory: Steven P. Wainwright, Clare Williams, Mike Michael, Bobbie Farsides and Alan Cribb.

6. Gift Not Commodity? Lay People Deliberating Social Sex Selection: Jackie Leach Scully, Tom Shakespeare and Sarah Banks.

7. It s Money That Matters: The Financial Context of Ethical Decision–Making in Modern Biomedicine: Adam M. Hedgecoe.

8. The Power of Ethics: A Case Study from Sweden on the Social Life of Moral Concerns in Policy Processes: Klaus Hoeyer.

9. Explaining the Emergence of Euthanasia Law in the Netherlands: How the Sociology of Law Can Help the Sociology of Bioethics: Heleen Weyers.

10. From Biopolitics to Bioethics: Church, State, Medicine and Assisted Reproductive Technology in Ireland: Orla McDonnell and Jill Allison.

11. Taking Sociology Seriously: A New Approach to the Bioethical Problems of Infectious Disease: Mark Tausig, Michael J. Selgelid, Sree Subedi and Janardan Subedi.

12. Biobanks, Bioethics and Concepts of Donated Blood in the UK: Helen Busby.

13. Embodiment and Ethics: Constructing Medicine s Two Bodies: David Armstrong.