Published June, 2011
By Catherine Myser
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book is a comparative anthropology and sociology of globalizing bioethics, exploring the global dissemination, local adaptations, cultural meanings and social functions of bioethics theories, practices and institutions. Regions considered include: Africa, Asia, Australia, Central and South America, Europe, Middle East, and North America.

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Published June, 2011
By Angus Dawson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Public health ethics is a discipline concerned with the health of the public or a population as a whole, rather than focusing on the individual. This book introduces a number of this new field's central concepts and explores the key and controversial issues arising.

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Published June, 2011
By , Henri Colt, Silvia Quadrelli and Friedman Lester
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Narrative film can be a useful way of looking at bioethical scenarios. This volume presents a collection of brief, accessible essays written by international experts from medicine, social sciences, and the humanities, all of whom have experience using film in their teaching of medical ethics. Each author looks at a single scene from a popular film in order to illuminate its ethical dimensions.

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Published June, 2011
By Curtis L Meinert
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book serves as an invaluable guide on how clinical trials are designed and run, how to interpret the results, and what to make of them in general. The book includes shopping guides for trials, a list of common abbreviations used by trialists, and tools for patients for deciding if or when to enroll in a clinical trial.

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Published May, 2011
By Catherine Mills
Publisher: Springer
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The book provides clear and thorough discussions of some of the dominant problems in reproductive ethics - human enhancement and the notion of the normal, reproductive liberty and procreative beneficence, the principle of harm and discrimination against disability - while also proposing new ways of addressing these.

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Published May, 2011
By Mark R. Wicclair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book provides a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in medicine, nursing and pharmacy, including discussions of conscience protection legislation and conscience-based refusals as well as several case studies. It is a valuable reference for scholars and students and anyone interested in this increasingly important aspect of health care.

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Published May, 2011
By Mark R. Wicclair
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book provides a comprehensive ethical analysis of conscientious objection in medicine, nursing and pharmacy, including discussions of conscience protection legislation and conscience-based refusals as well as several case studies. It is a valuable reference for scholars and students and anyone interested in this increasingly important aspect of health care.

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Published May, 2011
By Walter Glannon
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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This book is a discussion of the neuroscience ethics and the ethics of neuroscience. It examines the neurobiological basis of moral reasoning and decision-making, as well as ethical issues related to interventions in the brain.

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Published May, 2011
By Arthur Kleinman, Jing-Bao Nie, Nanyan Guo and Mark Selden
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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This book examines Japan's wartime medical atrocities and their postwar aftermath from a comparative perspective and inquires into perennial issues of historical memory, science, politics, society and ethics elicited by these rebarbative events.

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Published May, 2011
By Christine Ingleton and Merryn Gott
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The philosophy and principles of palliative care should be available to all, not just those patients who are perceived as dying prematurely. This book brings together the disciplines of palliative care and gerontology to improve the end of life experiences of all older people.

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