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The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences

Raymond De Vries (Editor), Leigh Turner (Editor), Kristina Orfali (Editor), Charles Bosk (Editor) 

ISBN: 978-1-405-15269-3

May 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

232 pages

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The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences

Raymond De Vries,Leigh Turner,Kristina Orfali,Charles Bosk

Paperback
978-1-405-15269-3
May 2007
CAD $52.99
Description
This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become “bioethical” questions.

  • Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems
  • Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists
  • Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology
  • An essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics
About the Author
Raymond De Vries is a member of the Bioethics Program at the University of Michigan.

Leigh Turner is an Associate Professor in the Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University.

Kristina Orfali is an Associate Clinical Professor of Bioethics in Pediatrics, a Research Scholar at Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Bioethics at Columbia University.


Charles Bosk is Professor of Sociology and Medical Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Features

  • Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems
  • Explores the profession of bioethics and its role in discussions about the means and ends of the life sciences
  • Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists
  • Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology

  • An essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics

Series
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
To Purchase this product, please visit
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