Bioethics and Health Policy - The Johns Hopkins University Press

BIOETHICS
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Practical Plans for Difficult Conversations
in Medicine
Strategies that Work in Breaking Bad News
Robert Buckman, M.D., Ph.D.
Feminist Bioethics
At the Center, on the Margins
edited by Jackie Leach Scully, Ph.D.,
Laurel E. Baldwin-Ragaven, M.D.C.M., and Petya Fitzpatrick, M.A.
New
The Price of Perfection
Individualism and Society in the Era
of Biomedical Enhancement
Maxwell J. Mehlman
Mehlman tells the story of how drugs and other biomedical interventions
to enhance human performance came about and examines
the issues they present. He explores the policy options for
maximizing the societal benefits and minimizing the harms from
these technologies and offers a set of realistic recommendations to
guide public policy making.
2009 320 pp.
978-0-8018-9263-9 $25.00 hardcover
Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H.
Medical school taught Rich how to deal with physical trauma
in a big city hospital but not with the disturbing fact that young
black men were daily shot, stabbed, and beaten. This is Rich’s account
of his personal search to find sense in the juxtaposition of
his life and theirs.
2009 232 pp.
978-0-8018-9363-6 $24.95 hardcover
Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening
New Technologies, New Challenges
edited by Mary Ann Baily and Thomas H. Murray
The contributors to this provocative collection study the complex
ethical and policy challenges present in the changing newborn
screening environment and offer guidance to professionals, policymakers,
and the general public.
2009 376 pp., 2 line drawings
978-0-8018-9151-9 $50.00 hardcover
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