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  • The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics

    Edited by Ana S. Iltis, Douglas MacKay ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics provides a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields, including biomedicine, public health, behavioral science, psychiatry, sociology, political science, and public policy. Featuring 45 original essays by leading research ethicists, it aims to improve scholarship in research ethics by encouraging cross ... Read more

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  • Institutional Integrity in Health Care

    Edited by Ana Smith Iltis ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Health care delivery has become institutionalized. As a result, health care organizations now have the power to determine who has access to what kind of health care and under what circumstances. They shape as well the ethics of the various health care professions. These developments have provoked controversies about what kind of obligations such health care organizations have to patients, ... Read more

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  • Legal Perspectives in Bioethics

    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Issues in bioethics often turn, at least in part, on the law and regulatory requirements. Consisting of chapters that address particular bioethics topics from the law’s perspective, this fascinating book includes:an introduction to the American legal systempapers identifying the principal ways in which the law influences discussions and decisions concerning each of the topics highlightedsupplemental ... Read more

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  • Research Ethics

    Edited by Ana Smith Iltis ...
    Series series Routledge Annals of Bioethics
    Medicine in the twenty-first century is increasingly reliant on research to guarantee the safety and efficacy of medical interventions. As a result, the need to understand the ethical issues that research generates is becoming essential. This volume introduces the principal areas of concern in research on human subjects, offering a framework for understanding research ethics, and the relationship ... Read more

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  • At the Foundations of Bioethics and Biopolitics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.

    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume brings together a set of critical essays on the thought of Professor Doctor H. Tristram Engelhardt Junior, Co-Founding Editor of the Philosophy and Medicine book series. Amongst the founders of bioethics, Professor Engelhardt, Jr. looms large. Many of his books and articles have appeared in multiple languages, including Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese. The essays in ... Read more

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