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Oxford Companion to US History  |  is the study of the moral dimensions of the life sciences and health care, including medicine , nursing , and the allied health professions.
bioethics
Oxford Companion to Philosophy  |  is the study of the moral and social implications of developments in the biological sciences and the related technology.
UNESCO Chair Hosts Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Jerusalem Bioethics Conferences Read this on the publication's site
Entrepreneur.com  |  Gathering seeks to foster the art of convergence and cooperation in global ethics among the three Monotheistic faiths using an academic model for dissemination and sharing of ... | More...
President Obama Establishes New Bioethics Commission Read this on the publication's site
Genetic Engineering News  |  President Barack Obama has created a new Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues and appointed Amy Gutmann, president of the , to serve as chair and James W. | More...
Warning: Bioethics May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Reason  |  In 1996, a 28-year-old breast cancer survivor named Joy Simha decided to take the new genetic test for the breast cancer gene BRCA1.
What is to blame for child obesity? Read this on the publication's site
Los Angeles Times  |  When Dr. Sadaf Farooqi and colleagues discovered a genetic abnormality that caused severe obesity in a handful of children, she had no cure. | More...
Quadriplegic Mother Fights to Maintain Custody of Son Read this on the publication's site
ABC News  |  Kaney O'Neill, 31, lost the use of her legs and much of the use of her arms 10 years ago when she fell from a balcony in Newport News, Va. | More...
Book World: Review of 'La's Orchestra Saves the World' Read this on the publication's site
Washington Post  |  LA'S ORCHESTRA SAVES THE WORLD By Alexander McCall Smith Pantheon. 294 pp. $23.95 According to George Bernard Shaw, "Hell is full of musical amateurs," but Alexander ... | More...
Renowned Ethicist Says To 'Set Limits' On Health Care Read this on the publication's site
National Public Radio  |  For decades, ethicist Daniel Callahan has argued that expensive medical care be parceled out carefully – essentially rationed – for elderly patients. | More...
Who gets expensive cancer drugs? A tale of 2 nations Read this on the publication's site
Genetic Engineering News  |  The well-worn notion that patients in the United States have unfettered access to the most expensive cancer drugs while the United Kingdom's nationalized health care system ... | More...
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Environmental Bioethics
Oxford Companion to Global Change  |  Environmental bioethics, or environmental ethics, is the theory and practice of values and duties concerning the natural world.
Bioethics
Oxford Companion to American Law  |  See Science and Law .
Medical Values and Ethics
Oxford Ency of Science & Technology  |  Over the course of two centuries, medicine has gained such great professional stature that it has become a prototypical profession.
Die, Right To
Oxford Companion: US Supreme Court  |  Life‐and‐death medical decisions—and, in particular, decisions that lead inexorably to death—have been at issue in three Supreme Court cases since 1990 . Washington ...
philosophy and real life
Oxford Companion to Philosophy  |  Claims by one philosophical tradition to capture real life better than another presuppose further claims concerning what it is about reality that philosophy ...
medicine, philosophy of
Oxford Companion to Philosophy  |  The philosophical, as distinct from the ethical and historical, problems in and around medicine are not largely discussed.
May Edward Chinn
Black Women in America (Oxford)  |  (b. 15 April 1896 ; d. 1 December 1980 ), physician , was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts , ...