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Innovation in medical technology : ethical issues and challenges / Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eaton, Margaret L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical technology.
- Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical innovations.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (172 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This work's insights into the nature and consequences of medical innovation contribute to the national debate on how best to protect patients while fostering innovation and securing benefits.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the need to ask questions about innovation
- Distinguishing innovative medical practice from research
- The modern history of human research ethics
- Innovation in the off-label use of drugs
- Innovative surgery
- Innovation in assisted reproduction
- Innovation in neuroimaging
- Questions, issues, and recommendations going forward
- Conclusion : final thoughts on the landscape of innovation.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-149) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9194-9
- 1-4356-9217-9
- OCLC:
- 310353957
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