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    If I Were a Rich Man Could I Buy a Pancreas?: And Other Essays on the Ethics of Health Care

    Arthur L. Caplan

    Covers issues such as organ procurement, in-vitro fertilization, and the rationing of medical care. This book also contains essays on residents’ autonomy in nursing homes and on the ethical issues…

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    When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust

    Arthur L. Caplan

    This volume examines problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The relevance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes are explored in detail.

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    When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust

    Arthur L. Caplan

    In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation’s leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult…

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    Due Consideration: Controversy in the Age of Medical Miracles

    Arthur L. Caplan

    This book explores the ethical challenges posed at the cutting edge of biomedical science and health care. Art Caplan, one of the nation’s leading theorists, clearly outlines the newest technologies…

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    The Ethical Challenges of Emerging Medical Technologies

    Arthur L. Caplan,Brendan Parent

    This collection of essays emphasizes society’s increasingly responsible engagement with ethical challenges in emerging medical technology. They showcase ways in which modern ethical thinking is improving safety, efficacy and efficiency…

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    Darwin, Marx and Freud: Their Influence on Moral Theory

    hope of obtaining a comprehensive and coherent understand ing of the human condition, we must somehow weave together the biological, sociological, and psychological components of human nature and experience.

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    Illuminating Philosophy

    Samuel Gorovitz

    In these 25 true stories, a widely published philosopher recounts 60 years of interaction with people in all walks of life some extremely famous, others complete strangers from hospitals to…

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    The Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings

    Sports are more than just games . They can unite countries, start wars, and revolutionize views on race, class, and gender. Through works from philosophy, sociology, medicine, and law, this…

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    The Ethics of Sport: Essential Readings

    Sports are more than just games. They can unite countries, start wars, and revolutionize views on race, class, and gender. Through works from philosophy, sociology, medicine, and law, this collection…

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    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today’s top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century.

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    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics

    Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable, debate-style arguments contributed by many of today s top bioethics scholars, focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first…

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    Vaccination Ethics and Policy: An Introduction with Readings

    A comprehensive overview of important and contested issues in vaccination ethics and policy by experts from history, science, policy, law, and ethics.

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    The Ethics of Organ Transplants: The Current Debate

    Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, an important issue. How are we…

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    Getting to Good: Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences

    Getting to Good - Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences is a major contribution to the literature on bioethics and will serve as an invaluable resource for all researchers, students…

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    Getting to Good: Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences

    Getting to Good - Research Integrity in the Biomedical Sciences is a major contribution to the literature on bioethics and will serve as an invaluable resource for all researchers, students…

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    Which Babies Shall Live?: Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns

    Thomas H. Murray,Arthur L. Caplan

    The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate…

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    Which Babies Shall Live?: Humanistic Dimensions of the Care of Imperiled Newborns

    Thomas H. Murray,Arthur L. Caplan

    The fate of seriously ill newborns has captured the atten tion of the public, of national and state legislators, and of powerful interest groups. For the most part, the debate…

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    Ethics of the Body: Postconventional Challenges

    After exploring notions of difference in both feminist and postmodernist terms, the book considers specific issues - including HIV, addiction, borderline personality disorder, and cancer - that challenge the principles…

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    Who Owns Life?

    With the mapping of the human genome and other genetic engineering techniques, scientists have embarked upon an era of biomedical research and with it a maze of ethical and legal…

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    Applying the Humanities

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    Scientific Controversies: Case Studies in the Resolution and Closure of Disputes in Science and Technology

    This work examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Essays show that debates are not confined to matters of empirical fact…

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    Scientific Controversies: Case Studies in the Resolution and Closure of Disputes in Science and Technology

    This work examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Essays show that debates are not confined to matters of empirical fact…

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    The Case of Terri Schiavo: Ethics at the End of Life

    The Schiavo case changed the decision to withhold life-prolonging nutrition and hydration which appeared to many to be as non-controversial as decisions to refuse respirators or dialysis. The ethical dilemmas…

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    Prescribing Our Future: Ethical Challenges in Genetic Counseling

    Dianne M. Bartels,Bonnie LeRoy,Arthur L Caplan

    Genetic counselors translate the findings of scientific investigation into meaningful accounts that enable individuals and families to make decisions about their lives

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    Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences

    Dianne M. Bartels,Bonnie S. LeRoy,Arthur L. Caplan,Arthur L. Caplan

    Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993.

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    Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns

    Arthur L. Caplan,Robert H. Blank,Janna C. Merrick

    The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with…

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    Compelled Compassion: Government Intervention in the Treatment of Critically Ill Newborns

    Arthur L. Caplan,Robert H. Blank,Janna C. Merrick

    The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with…

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    Genetic Counseling: Ethical Challenges and Consequences

    Reprint. Originally published under the title: Prescribing our future. New York: De Gruyter, c1993.

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    The American Medical Ethics Revolution: How the AMA’s Code of Ethics Has Transformed Physicians’ Relationships to Patients, Professionals and Society

    In this volume, contributors from medicine, bioethics and history of medicine reflect on the development of medical ethics in the USA since the American Medical Association enacted its Code of…

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    Health, Disease, and Illness: Concepts in Medicine

    Examines the history, state, and future of concepts in medicine. This title shows the evolutionary arc of medical concepts from the Greek physician Galen of Pergamum (ca 150 ce) who…

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    Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques

    Dianne M. Bartels,Reinhard Priester,Dorothy E. Vawter,Arthur L. Caplan

    Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction…

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    Beyond Baby M: Ethical Issues in New Reproductive Techniques

    Dianne M. Bartels,Reinhard Priester,Dorothy E. Vawter,Arthur L. Caplan

    Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction…

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    Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care: An Interdisciplinary Reader

    Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.

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    Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

    Peter J. Hotez (Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine)

    –from the foreword by Arthur L. Caplan, NYU School of Medicine

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    Vaccines Did Not Cause Rachel’s Autism: My Journey as a Vaccine Scientist, Pediatrician, and Autism Dad

    Peter J. Hotez (Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine)

    –from the foreword by Arthur L. Caplan, NYU School of Medicine

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    Replacement Parts: The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans

    Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and…

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    Replacement Parts: The Ethics of Procuring and Replacing Organs in Humans

    Despite mass appeals and revolutionary changes in medicine, demand for human organs outstrips supply in the United States. This book offers a collection of writings from medicine, philosophy, economics, and…

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