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Explores human dignity and care in the face of disease and disability.Complex contemporary experiences with disease, death, and disability in the United States have made the …
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines.Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for …
What will happen when technology allows us to direct our own evolution?Transhumanists advocate for the development and distribution of technologies that will enhance human …
This collection of essays examines alternative theories about persons and personal identity at the beginning and end of life. The contributions seek to answer the important …
Helping human research protection program professionals create, implement, and evaluate quality assurance/quality improvement programs.Quality Assurance and Quality Improvement …
May discusses the fundamental features of a liberal society- chiefly, the individual's rights to make decisions for him- or herself-then applies them in the most important …
Developing best practices and ethical systems to protect and enhance patient safety.Human errors occur all too frequently in medical practice settings. One sobering recent report …
Finalist, Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, British Sociological AssociationOver a decade after medical sociologist Phil Brown called for a sociology …
Between 1907 and 1937, thirty-two states legalized the sterilization of more than 63,000 Americans. In Fixing the Poor, Molly Ladd-Taylor tells the story of these state-run …
There are few things requiring more expertise, delicacy, and compassion than caring for an infant, child, or young adult with a life-limiting condition. Written by leading …