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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge bioethics and lawPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (vii, 177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316343197 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 174.2 23
LOC classification:
  • K3601 .B556 2018
Online resources:
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.
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.
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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.

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.

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