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Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments, but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. "Society's Choices" discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and culture - and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.

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Book category Books in English Medicine Medicine: general issues Medical profession

• Full title: Society's Choices
• Subtitle: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine
• Author: Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 560
• EAN: 9780309051323
• ISBN: 0309051320
• ID: 04576311
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Weight: 1039 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 40 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. February 1995

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