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  • Genomics and Environmental Regulation

    Science, Ethics, and Law

    Edited by Richard R. Sharp, Gary E. Marchant, Jamie A. Grodsky ...
    To reduce the deleterious effects of environmental contamination, governments across the world have enacted regulations broadly conceived for entire populations. Information arising out of the Human Genome Project and other cutting-edge genetic research is shifting the policymaking process. This fascinating volume draws on experts from academia, government, industry, and nongovernmental ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • The Growing Gap Between Emerging Technologies and Legal-Ethical Oversight

    The Pacing Problem

    Edited by Gary E. Marchant, Braden R. Allenby, Joseph R. Herkert ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    At the same time that the pace of science and technology has greatly accelerated in recent decades, our legal and ethical oversight mechanisms have become bogged down and slower. This book addresses the growing gap between the pace of science and technology and the lagging responsiveness of legal and ethical oversight society relies on to govern emerging technologies. Whether it be biotechnology, ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cancer Risk Evaluation

    Methods and Trends

    Edited by Gary E. Marchant, Burkhard Jandrig, Peter M. Wiedemann, Günter Obe, Holger Schütz ...
    An overview of the different approaches to cancer risk assessment of environmental factors - including "-omics" technologies, discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the methods in different fields. The main focus is on the carcinogenic effects of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, demonstrating the difficulties in accurately assessing those factors that may or may not pose a significant ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

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    What Modern Genetics Can Tell You about Assisted Reproduction, Human Behavior, and Personalized Medicine, and Much More

    by Jeremy Gruber, Sheldon Krimsky ...
    For a quarter of a century, the Council for Responsible Genetics has provided a unique historical lens into the modern history, science, ethics, and politics of genetic technologies. Since 1983 the Council has had leading scientists, activists, science writers, and public health advocates researching and reporting on a broad spectrum of issues, including genetically engineered foods, biological ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sickening

    How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It

    by John Abramson ...
    The inside story of how Big Pharma’s relentless pursuit of ever-higher profits corrupts medical knowledge—misleading doctors, misdirecting American health care, and harming our health.The United States spends an excess $1.5 trillion annually on health care compared to other wealthy countries—yet the amount of time that Americans live in good health ranks a lowly 68th in the world. At the heart of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Life Itself

    Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century

    by Nikolas Rose ...
    Series series In-Formation
    For centuries, medicine aimed to treat abnormalities. But today normality itself is open to medical modification. Equipped with a new molecular understanding of bodies and minds, and new techniques for manipulating basic life processes at the level of molecules, cells, and genes, medicine now seeks to manage human vital processes. The Politics of Life Itself offers a much-needed examination of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Pharmacovigilance

    by Patrick Waller, Mira Harrison-Woolrych ...
    Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug-related problems.This introductory guide is designed to aid the rapid understanding of the key principles of pharmacovigilance. Packed full of examples illustrating drug safety issues it not only covers the processes involved, but the regulatory ... Read more

    $37.00 USD

  • The Genome Factor

    What the Social Genomics Revolution Reveals about Ourselves, Our History, and the Future

    by Dalton Conley, Jason Fletcher ...
    How genomics is revolutionizing the social sciencesFor a century, social scientists have avoided genetics like the plague. But the nature-nurture wars are over. In the past decade, a small but intrepid group of economists, political scientists, and sociologists have harnessed the genomics revolution to paint a more complete picture of human social life than ever before. The Genome Factor describes ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Genetics

    Science, Ethics, and Public Policy

    by Mark P. Aulisio, Françoise Baylis, Geoffrey D. Block, Hawley Fogg-Davis, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Konrad Hockedlinger, Rodulf Jaenisch, Gregory E. Kaebnick, Muin J. Khoury, Roberta Springer Loewy, Thomas May, Edward R. B. McCabe, Linda L. McCabe, Annette Patterson, Jason Scott Robert, Martha Satz, Dena Towner, The President's Council on Bioethics, Francis Fukuyama ...
    Series series Readings in Bioethics
    Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional societies, is covered regularly in the media, and affects people everyday around the globe. In ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics

    Edited by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Christine C. Grady, Robert A. Crouch, Franklin G. Miller, David D. Wendler, Reidar K. Lie ...
    Series series Oxford Textbook
    The Oxford Textbook of Clinical Research Ethics is the first comprehensive and systematic reference on clinical research ethics. Under the editorship of experts from the U.S. National Institutes of Health of the United States, the book's 73 chapters offer a wide-ranging and systematic examination of all aspects of research with human beings. Considering the historical triumphs of research as well ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Your Money or Your Life

    Strong Medicine for America's Health Care System

    by David M. Cutler ...
    The problems of medical care confront us daily: a bureaucracy that makes a trip to the doctor worse than a trip to the dentist, doctors who can't practice medicine the way they choose, more than 40 million people without health insurance. "Medical care is in crisis," we are repeatedly told, and so it is. Barely one in five Americans thinks the medical system works well. Enter David M. Cutler, a ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Integrative Medicine

    General Practice: The Integrative Approach Series

    by Kerryn Phelps, MBBS(Syd), FRACGP, FAMA, AM, Craig Hassed, MBBS, FRACGP ...
    Integrative Medicine - General Practice the Integrative Approach Series. This chapter introduces the concept of integrative medicine and the healthcare revolution. The emergence of evidence-based medicine and, more recently, evidence-based complementary medicine is challenging many previously held notions of best practice. As evidence emerges, many Western medical therapies are being confirmed as ... Read more

    $5.15 USD