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Society's choices : social and ethical decision making in biomedicine /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine
Other Authors: Bulger, Ruth Ellen, Bobby, Elizabeth Meyer, Fineberg, Harvey V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Ethics, Medical.
Bioethics.
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.
  • 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.