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Malignant

Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer
Rebecca Dresser
$29.95
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199757848ISBN10: 0199757844 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.
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Am I My Genes?

Confronting Fate and Family Secrets in the Age of Genetic Testing
Robert L. Klitzman
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780199837168ISBN10: 0199837163 An illuminating look at the challenges of genetic testing, highlighting the dilemmas faced by people at risk for genetic disease, based on first-hand accounts
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Global Justice and Bioethics

Joseph Millum, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
$45.00
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195379907ISBN10: 019537990X This book is the first collection to comprehensively address the intersection of global justice and bioethical dilemmas.
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Global Justice and Bioethics

Joseph Millum, Ezekiel J. Emanuel
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Hardback,  Feb 2012 ISBN13: 9780195379907ISBN10: 019537990X This book is the first collection to comprehensively address the intersection of global justice and bioethical dilemmas.
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The History and Future of Bioethics

A Sociological View
John H. Evans
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Hardback,  Dec 2011 ISBN13: 9780199860852ISBN10: 0199860858 While functioning quite well for many years, the bioethics profession is in crisis. John H. Evans closely examines the history of the bioethics profession, and based on the sociological reasons the profession evolved as it did, proposes a radical solution to the crisis.
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Prevention vs. Treatment

What's the Right Balance?
Halley S. Faust, Paul T. Menzel
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199837373ISBN10: 0199837376 Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In our health care spending, is prevention underfunded while treatment receives overall priority? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine, and morally, conceptually, and historically by philosophers, lawyers, theologians, and ethicists.
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Prevention vs. Treatment

What's the Right Balance?
Halley S. Faust, Paul T. Menzel
$49.99
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Hardback,  Oct 2011 ISBN13: 9780199837373ISBN10: 0199837376 Is prevention better than cure, or treatment more important because people need rescue? In our health care spending, is prevention underfunded while treatment receives overall priority? In this volume the prevention-treatment relationship is examined factually by economists and scholars of health policy and evidence-based medicine, and morally, conceptually, and historically by philosophers, lawyers, theologians, and ethicists.
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Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation

Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life
Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog
$55.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199739172ISBN10: 019973917X In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue systematically that physicians legitimately cause the death of patients in the routine practices of withdrawing life support and vital organ donation.
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Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation

Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life
Franklin G. Miller, Robert D. Truog
$55.00
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199739172ISBN10: 019973917X In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue systematically that physicians legitimately cause the death of patients in the routine practices of withdrawing life support and vital organ donation.
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Better than Human

The Promise and Perils of Enhancing Ourselves
Allen Buchanan
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Hardback,  Sep 2011 ISBN13: 9780199797875ISBN10: 0199797870 A consultant to President Obama's Commission on Bioethics offers a fascinating look at revolutionary medical enhancements--and their ethical dilemmas

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