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Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, Volume II (Debates Over Medical Authority, New Challenges in Biomedical Experimentation) - Hardcover
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This year's review of biomedical issues contains 17 essays on two areas: biomedical experimentation and authority in medical decision making. Among the specific topics are physician refusal of request for futile or ineffective interventions, Washington States's Initiative 119, women as research subjects, and economic incentives in clinical investigations. Accessible to general readers. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Robert H. Blank is Professor of Political Science at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has written twelve books, including Rationing Medicine and Regulating Reproduction, both published by Columbia University Press. Andrea L. Bonnicksen is Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Civil Rights and Liberties: Principles of Interpretation and In Vitro Fertilization, the latter published by Columbia University Press.
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Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, An Annual Review, Volume II (Debates Over Medical Authority, New Challenges in Biomedical Experimentation)
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Columbia University Press, New York, 1993
ISBN 10: 0231080166
ISBN 13: 9780231080163
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Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 273 pp., xi. '1' in number line. Contents divided into 17 Essays in 2 Parts: Part I DEBATES OVER AUTHORITY IN MEDICAL DECISION-MAKING Andrea L. Bonnicksen, "Introduction"; (1) William J. Winslade, "End-of-Life Medicine, Law, and Ethics: A Twilight Zone"; (2) John J. Paris and Frank Reardon, "Physician Refusal of Requests for Futile or Ineffective Interventions"; (3) Tom Tomlinson, "Refusing Demands for Attempted Resuscitation: Ethics and Hospital Policy"; (4) Robert Baker and Martin Strosberg, "The Bioethical Revolution of 1988: The Future of the Futility Controversy"; (5) Marion Danis and Larry Churchill, "Evolving Trends for Advance Directives"; (6) Timothy E. Quill, "A Case of Individualized Decision Making"; (7) Albert R. Jonsen, "Reflection on Washington State's Initiative 119"; (8) Robert W. Wood and Ralph Mero, "Washington State's ' Death with Dignity ' Initiative"; (9) Richard M. Zaner and Mark D. Fox, "Selective Termination and Moral Risk: Choices and Responsibility"; (10) Eugene Pergament. "In Utero Treatment: Fetal Surgery"; Part II NEW CHALLENGES IN MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION Robert H. Blank, "Introduction'; (11) Charles R. McCarthy, "Overview: Challenges for the 1990s"; (12) Carol Levine, "Women as Research Subjects: New Priorities, New Questions"; (13) Joan Porter, Marta Glass, and Wayne Koff, "International AIDS Vaccine Trials"; (14) John C. Fletcher, "Human Fetal and Embryo Research: Lysenkoism in Reverse--How and Why?"; (15) Mary B. Mahowald, "Brain Development, Personality, and Neurografts"; (16) Deborah Mathieu, "Ending the Experiment: Dilemmas of the Experimental/Therapeutic Distinction"; (17) Arnold E. Relman, "Economic Incentives in Clinical Investigation"; "About the Contributors", pp. 269-273. Blue cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spne; Medium gray endpapers. Glossy dustwrapper not price-clipped (NO price) with medium gray vertical side borders for vertical light gray wide strip down middle front cover, with larger and smaller yellow Title and Editor Names boxes (for dark blue lettering) across top and bottom front cover, respectively. Very faint stain at foot of fore-edge (trapezoidal, 3/8" x 5/8", light Tan [vs. white remainder]; NO warping, NO odor, NO bleeding onto truly trivial); Cosmetic: very small bump-wrinkle to dw only at top spine and small dimple at gutter just below midpoint on left front cover, else unqualifiedly As New: Review Copy with Review slip laid in (Orig. Price in 1993, $45.00): Tight binding (NO cracks); Sharp corners (NO bumps or curls);NO rubbing wear; NO previous owner names. Clean text. UNREAD. Essentially: Flawless. Seller Inventory # 002959