Published March, 2012
By Jennifer Prah Ruger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This book brings together the latest thinking in social justice and health policy and seeks to integrate a capabilities perspective with the demands of health and economic policies that impact on health

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Published March, 2012
By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Joseph Millum and Ezekiel Emanuel
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book presents a collection of original essays by leading thinkers in political theory, philosophy, and bioethics on key issues concerning global justice and bioethics. It is the first collection to comprehensively address these pressing theoretical and practical questions about international distributive justice, humans rights, health care and medical research.

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Published March, 2012
By Rebecca Dresser
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book tells the stories of seven people with a distinct perspective on cancer. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience showed them how little they knew about the real world of serious illness. In this book, they describe cancer's teachings on ethics, medicine, and the experience of illness.

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Published March, 2012
By Paula Boddington
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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New developments in science and technology have resulted in shifting ethical challenges in many areas including in genomics research.

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Published March, 2012
By Springer, Howard A. Brody, Zahra Meghani and Kimberly Greenwald
Publisher: Springer
Series: Philosophy and Medicine
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Michael Ryan's Writings on Medical Ethics offers both an annotated reprint of his key ethical writings, and an extensive introductory essay that fills in many previously unknown details of Ryan's life, analyzes the significance of his ethical works, and places him within the historical trajectory of the field of medical ethics.

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Published March, 2012
By Mark Taylor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Bioethics and Law
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Research using genetic data must be properly regulated. Regulation that does not take account of the public interest in research and privacy protection might undermine the legitimacy of the regulatory environment. Using genetic data as an example, Mark Taylor explores the limitations of the current law of data protection.

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Published March, 2012
By K. W. M. Fulford, Ed Peile, Heidi Carroll and Edward Peile
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Values-Based Practice
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The most likely reason for unsatisfactory clinical consultations is a failure of values-based practice - not ascertaining the relevant values perspectives and acting on them in an appropriate manner. This book will help clinicians acquire and develop the processes and skills of values-based practice, improving outcomes for patients, carers and clinicians.

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Published March, 2012
By Stephen Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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To what extent should parents be allowed to use reproductive technologies to determine the characteristics of their future children? Is there something morally wrong with choosing what their sex will be, or with trying to 'screen out' as much disease and disability as possible before birth? Stephen Wilkinson offers answers to such questions.

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Published February, 2012
By British Medical Association and . BMA
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd))
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This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals.

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Published February, 2012
By Stephen W. Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Decisions relating to assisted dying, euthanasia, palliative care and the withdrawal of treatment must take into account a range of issues. Stephen W. Smith outlines an ethical theory for end-of-life decisions and provides a critical examination of regulatory practices at the end of life.

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