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social and ethical decision making in biomedicine
Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine.
Introduction -- Defining "ethical" issues -- Sources of ethical issues in biomedicine -- The social context of bioethical problem solving -- The Americal character -- Actors shaping the social context for bioethics -- Health care and science: Shaping the social context for bioethics -- Systematic approaches to bioethics -- Academic bioethics -- Scientists and other technical experts -- Health care professional education -- The spectrum of societal responses -- Political and legal mechanisms -- Professional and institutional mechanisms -- Individual and community responses -- Criteria for success -- Intellectual integrity -- Sensitivity to democratic values -- Effectiveness -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Interpreting the committee's charge -- Criteria for evaluation -- A multilevel approach to bioethics deliberation -- Recommendations.
Commisssioned papers -- Moral epistemology -- Public moral discourse -- The value of consensus -- Bioethics commissions: What can we learn from past successes and failures? -- Limiting life-prolonging medical treatment: A comparative analysis of the President's Commmision and the New York State Task Force -- The formulation of health policy by the three branchesof government -- The role of religious participation and religious belief in biomedical decision making -- Trust, honesty, and the authority of science -- Institutional ethics committees: Local perspectives on ethical issues in medicine -- The ethical, legal, and social implications program of the National Center for Human Genome Research: A missed opportunity? -- AIDS, ethics, and activism: Institutional encounters in the epidemic's first decade -- "La Penible Valse Hesitation": Fetal tissue research -- Review and the use of bioethics commissions in France and the United States -- Appendix: Past commissions and advisory boards.
Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg, editors ; Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine, Division of Health Sciences Policy, Institute of Medicine.
Includes bibliographical references and index.