From birth to death and bench to clinic
Subtitle: the Hastings Center bioethics briefing book for journalists, policymakers, and campaigns
Publisher: The Hastings Center
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Garrison, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
Subjects: Bioethics; Medical policy; Medical ethics; Public health
Other titles: Bioethics briefing book; Hastings Center bioethics briefing book
Description: "From Birth to Death and Bench to Clinic: The Hastings Center Bioethics Briefing Book for Journalists, Policymakers, and Campaigns contains 36 overviews of issues in bioethics of high public interest, such as abortion, health care reform, human and sports enhancement, organ transplantation, personalized medicine, medical error, and stem cells. The chapters, written by leading ethicists, are nonpartisan, presenting reasonable considerations from various perspectives that are grounded in good scientific and ethical facts. They each include recent news stories, clickable experts to contact, linked resources, and (where available) recent legislation and campaign positions. Greater detail on how to use the book is in the introduction. The three framing essays offer valuable insights into the historical and increasing relevance of bioethics to public policy." - from first Web page
Notes: Spiral binding.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bioethics matters: introduction and acknowledgments / Mary Crowley, Director of Public Affairs and Communications, The Hastings Center; title: Why a bioethics briefing book? / Thomas H. Murray, President, The Hastings Center; title: Bioethics and policy; title: a history / Daniel Callahan, Cofounder, The Hastings Center; title: Why bioethics matters today; title: a journalist's perspective / Nancy Gibbs, Editor-at-Large, TIME; title: 1. Abortion / Bonnie Steinbock; title: 2. Assisted reproduction / Adrienne Asch and Rebecca Marmor; title: 3. Biobanks: DNA and research / Karen J. Maschke; title: 4. Brain injury: the vegetative and minimally conscious states / Joseph J. Fins; title: 5. Clinical trials / Christine Grady; title: 6. Cloning / Christopher Thomas Scott and Irving L. Weissman; title: 7. Conflict of interest in biomedical research / Josephine Johnston; title: 8. Conscience clauses, health care providers, and parents / Nancy Berlinger; title: 9. Disaster planning and public health / Bruce Jennings; title: 10. DNA and law enforcement / Karen J. Maschke; title: 11. End of life care / Alan Meisel; title: 12. Enhancing humans / Mark S. Frankel and Christina J. Kapustij; title: 13. Environment and health / David B. Resnik and Christopher J. Portier; title: 14. Family caregiving / Carol Levine; title: 15. Gene patents / Robert Cook-Deegan; title: 16. Genetic testing and screening / Nancy Press; title: 17. Health care costs and medical technology / Daniel Callahan; title: 18. Health care reform / Norman Daniels and Marc Roberts; title: 19. Influenza pandemic / Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel; title: 20. Intellectual property and biomedicine / Josephine Johnston; title: 21. Medical error / Nancy Berlinger; title: 22. Mental health in children and adolescents / Erik Parens and Josephine Johnston; title: 23. Multinational research / Voo Teck Chuan, Jacqueline Chin, and Alastair V. Campbell; title: 24. Nanotechnology / Evan S. Michelson, Ronald Sandler, and David Rejeski; title: 25. Nature, human nature, and biotechnology / Gregory E. Kaebnick; title: 26. Neonatal care / Alan R. Fleischman; title: 27. Newborn screening / Mary Ann Baily; title: 28. Organ transplantation / Arthur Caplan; title: 29. Personalized medicine and genomics / Anne-Marie Laberge and Wylie Burke; title: 30. Physician assisted death / Timothy E. Quill and Jane Greenlaw; title: 31. Public health / Lawrence O. Gostin; title: 32. Quality improvement methods in health care / Mary Ann Baily; title: 33. Sports enhancement / Thomas H. Murray; title: 34. Stem cells / Insoo Hyun; title: 35. Synthetic biology / Michele S. Garfinkel, Drew Endy, Gerald L. Epstein, and Robert M. Friedman; title: 36. Torture: the bioethics perspective / Steven H. Miles; title: Appendix: Legislation; title: Appendix: Campaign