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Society's Choices

Society's Choices Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine

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Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments, but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. "Society's Choices" discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and culture - and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.

Book information

ISBN: 9780309051323
Publisher: National Academy Press
Imprint: National Academy Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 174.2
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 541
Weight: 1043g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Spine width: 38mm