Bioethics in action / edited by Françoise Baylis, Alice Dreger.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baylis, Françoise, 1961- editor.

Dreger, Alice Domurat, editor.

Series:

Cambridge bioethics and law.

Cambridge bioethics and law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bioethics.

Medical laws and legislation.

Human experimentation in medicine--Law and legislation.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human body--Law and legislation.

Human body.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case studies of attempts to fix serious ethical problems in medical practice and research. It highlights the critical difference between the pundit approach to bioethics and the interventional approach - the talkers and the doers - and points to how abused and damaged the doers often end up. Chapters cover a diverse set of topics, including the troubling influence of for-profit businesses on public health policy, the politics of exposing histories of unjust medical research, the challenges of patient rights' work in sexuality and reproduction, collaborations between NGOs and academics, methods for changing entrenched yet harmful medical practices, engaging public policy through educating governmental leaders, and whistleblowing. The trending interest in the interplay of academia and advocacy and the growing importance of 'socially-engaged' work by academics make this a timely and much-needed resource.

Contents:

More than words / Alice Dreger and francoise Baylis

Where there's smoke, there's Pfizer / Francoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie

So what : historical contingency, activism, and reflections on the studies in Tuskegee and Guatemala / Susan M. Reverby

Twenty years of working toward intersex rights / Alice Dreger

Working with public citizen : an academic-NGO collaboration / Ruth Macklin

Repro tech's legacy of omission / Miriam Zoll

Establishing pediatric palliative care 2013; overcoming barriers / Joel Frader

History and philosophy of science engaging the public / Jane Maienschein

The Flint water crisis / Aron Sousa.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-58407-1

1-316-34319-7

1-108-69570-1