Bioethics™

Bioethics™: Life, Politics, Economics
edited by Joanna Zylinska


Joanna Zylinska
Introduction (coming soon...)

Joanna Zylinska, If It Reads, It Bleeds, 3' video, 2010


The Business of Bioethics

Carl Elliott - American Bioscience Meets the American Dream
Link to original American Bioscience Meets the American Dream

Jocelyn E Mackie et al - Lessons on Ethical Decision Making from the Bioscience Industry
Link to Original Lessons on Ethical Decision Making from the Bioscience Industry

Carlos Novas
What Is the Bioscience Industry Doing to Address the Ethical Issues It Faces?

Ezekiel J Emanuel, Trudo Lemmens, Carl Elliot
Should Society Allow Research Ethics Boards to Be Run As For-Profit Enterprises?

Adriane J. Fugh-Berman
The Haunting of Medical Journals: How Ghostwriting Sold “HRT”


The Economics of Medical Research and Patient Care

T Lemmens, PB Miller
Regulating the Market in Human Research Participants

Aaron S. Kesselheim, Michelle M. Mello, David M. Studdert
Strategies and Practices in Off-Label Marketing of Pharmaceuticals: A Retrospective Analysis of Whistleblower Complaints

David Henry
Doctors and Drug Companies: Still Cozy after All These Years

Nadine Housri, Robert J Weil, David I Shalowitz, Leonidas G Koniaris
Should Informed Consent for Cancer Treatment Include a Discussion about Hospital Outcome Disparities?


Bio-manufacturing 

Arti Rai, James Boyle
Synthetic Biology: Caught between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons

Thomas Douglas, Julian Savulescu
Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of Knowledge

Antony Taubman
The International Patent System and Biomedical Research: Reconciling Aspiration, Policy and Practice

D G Gill
“Anything you can do, I can do bigger?”: The Ethics and Equity of Growth Hormone for Small Normal Children


The Price of Life

Tarif Bakdash, Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Is It Ethical for Patients with Renal Disease to Purchase Kidneys from the World's Poor?

Mark Schweda, Silke Schicktanz
The "spare parts person"? Conceptions of the Human Body and Their Implications for Public Attitudes towards Organ Donation and Organ Sale

Antonia J Cronin, David Price
Directed Organ Donation: Is the Donor the Owner?

Henry T. Greely, Mildred K. Cho, Linda F. Hogle, Debra M. Satz
Thinking About the Human Neuron Mouse

Howard Wolinsky
The Thousand-Dollar Genome. Genetic Brinkmanship or Personalized Medicine?


Global Health Inc.

Robert Mitchell, Catherine Waldby
National Biobanks: Clinical Labor, Risk Production, and the Creation of Biovalue

Kammerle Schneider, Laurie Garrett
The End of the Era of Generosity? Global Health amid Economic Crisis

Jacquineau Azétsop, Stuart Rennie
Principlism, Medical Individualism, and Health Promotion in Resource-poor Countries: Can Autonomy-based Bioethics Promote Social Justice and Population Health?

Stuart Rennie, Bavon Mupenda
Living Apart Together: Reflections on Bioethics, Global Inequality and Social Justice


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