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Bioethics in Singapore : the ethical microcosm / John M. Elliott, W. Calvin Ho, Sylvia S.N. Lim, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bioethics--Singapore.
- Bioethics.
- Medical ethics--Singapore.
- Medical ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government. The editors and authors have an intimate knowledge of the working of the BAC, and the focus of the book includes the ways in which international forces have influenced the form and substance of bioethics in Singapore. Together, the authors offer a comparative account of the institutionalisation of biomedical research ethics in Singapore, considered in the wider context of in
- Contents:
- The coming of bioethics to Singapore / W. Calvin Ho and Sylvia S.N. Lim
- The impact of the bioethics advisory committee on the research community in Singapore / Charmaine K.M. Chan and Edison T. Liu
- Engaging the public : the role of the media / Chang Ai-Lien and Judith Tan
- Confucian trust and the biomedical regulatory framework in Singapore / Anh Tuan Nuyen
- The clinician-researcher : a servant of two masters? / Alastair V. Campbell, Jacqueline Chin, and Teck Chuan Voo
- The US model for oversight of human stem cell research / Lindsay Parham and Bernard Lo
- Genetics and stem cell research : models of international policy-making / Bartha Maria Knoppers, Emily Kirby, and Rosario Isasi
- Public engagement and bioethics commissions / Thomas H. Murray and Ross S. White
- Norm-making on human-animal chimeras and hybrids in Singapore, the United Kingdom and the international domain / W. Calvin Ho and Martin Bobrow
- How will future bioethical issues engage Singapore? / John Elliott.
- Notes:
- "A 10th anniversary publication of the bioethics advisory committee, Singapore."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613145178
- 9781283145176
- 1283145170
- 9789814327121
- 9814327123
- OCLC:
- 740444802
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