Published March, 2007
By Yael Hashiloni-Dolev
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
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This book presents the findings of a study into the social shaping of reproductive genetics in Germany and Israel. A close analysis of the ways that these two societies handle the balance between the quality and sanctity of life illuminates controversies over reproductive genetics in an original and provocative way.

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Published March, 2007
By Onora O'Neill and Neil C. Manson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, first published in 2007, offers a coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine which will be valuable to readers working in a range of areas in bioethics, medicine and law.

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Published March, 2007
By Onora O'Neill and Neil C. Manson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Rethinking Informed Consent in Bioethics, first published in 2007, offers a coherent, wide-ranging and practical account of the role of consent in biomedicine which will be valuable to readers working in a range of areas in bioethics, medicine and law.

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Published March, 2007
By James V. Lavery, Christine Grady, Elizabeth R. Wahl, Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Christine C. Grady
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The ethics of biomedical research in developing countries is hotly debated. Utilising 21 cases of actual research trials, this book explores a wide range of ethical challenges in conducting research in developing countries. Commentaries are provided by leading scholars on international research ethics as well as by many new voices, including authors from developing countries.

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Published March, 2007
By Penney Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The question of whether euthanasia and assisted suicide should be legalized is often treated as a universal, ethical question, transcending national boundaries and diverse legal systems. This book examines the impact of the choice of diverse legal routes towards legalization on the subsequent assisted dying regimes in operation.

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Published February, 2007
By Lois Snyder
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Biomedical Ethics Reviews
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This is the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary book to focus on the ethical challenges of complementary and alternative medicine. The book is written by a multidisciplinary team of CAM ethics and policy analysts, researchers and thought-leaders who present a forward-looking exploration of their subject.

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Published February, 2007
By Bonnie Steinbock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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Bonnie Steinbock presents the authoritative, state-of-the-art guide to current issues in bioethics, covering 30 topics in original essays by some of the world's leading figures in the field, as well as by some newer 'up-and-comers'. Anyone who wants to know how the central debates in bioethics have developed in recent years, and where the debates are going, will want to consult this book.

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Published January, 2007
By Angus Dawson and Marcel Verweij
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press)
Series: Issues in Biomedical Ethics
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What role should the law play in regulating risks? What limits do we wish to place upon public health activities? Addressing such questions, this book explores various issues in public health ethics using the resources of moral theory, political philosophy, philosophy of science, applied ethics, law, and economics.

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Published January, 2007
By Jennifer Radden
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
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This Companion is a comprehensive resource of new essays by leading thinkers on the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of the philosophy of psychiatry. The contributors define the field and highlight the philosophical assumptions that underlie psychiatric theory and practice.

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Published January, 2007
By Eric Matthews
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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How should we deal with mental disorder - as an "illness" like diabetes or bronchitis, as a "problem in living", or what? This book seeks to answer such questions by going to their roots, in philosophical questions about the nature of the human mind, the ways in which it can be understood, and about the nature and aims of scientific medicine.

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