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  title info:
    title: Society's choices
    sub title: social and ethical decision making in biomedicine
  title info:
    title: Social and ethical decision making in biomedicine
  name:
    name part: Bulger, Ruth Ellen.
  name:
    name part: Bobby, Elizabeth Meyer.
  name:
    name part: Fineberg, Harvey V.
  name:
    name part: Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
    name part: Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 1995
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 541 pages ; 24 cm.
  table of contents: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: 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.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ethics, Medical
  subject:
    topic: Bioethics
  classification: R724 .S598 1995
  classification: 174/.2
  classification: 1995 C-370
  classification: W 50 S679 1995
  identifier: 0309051320
  identifier: 94039354
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 941031
    record change date: 20191203081138.0
    record identifier: in00004483241