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Book Reviews

Sarah Conly, One Child: Do We Have a Right to More? Oxford University Press, 2016

Travis N. RiederBerman Institute of BioethicsJohns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD, USA There are too many people on the planet. This isn’t a popular thing to say, but it’s…

March 11, 2016

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Peter C. Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare, CRC Press, 2013         

Justin B. BiddleGeorgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta, GA, USA From the title, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare, Peter Gøtzsche…

February 1, 2016

Book Reviews

Ellen Feder, Making Sense of Intersex: Changing Ethical Perspectives in Biomedicine, Indiana University Press, 2014       

 Marie DrazSan Diego State UniversitySan Diego, CA, USA In the 21st century, why is the birth of a child with atypical sex still considered a social emergency? Moreover, why…

January 28, 2016

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Erik Parens, Shaping Our Selves: On Technology, Flourishing, and a Habit of Thinking, Oxford University Press, 2014         

Nancy M.P. KingDepartment of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest School of MedicineCenter for Bioethics, Health, and Society and Graduate Program in Bioethics,Wake…

January 19, 2016

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Joseph Heath, Morality, Competition, and the Firm: The Market Failures Approach to Business Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2014        

 Jason BrennanGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA             Until Joseph Heath came along, philosophical business ethics was in a bad way. To the extent it…

November 11, 2015

Book Reviews

Matthew H. Kramer, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry, Oxford University Press, 2014

Uwe SteinhoffDepartment of Politics and Public AdministrationUniversity of Hong KongHong Kong The blurb of Matthew Kramer’s book, Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical…

October 20, 2015

Book Reviews

James C. Mohr, Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical Profession, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013    

Gregory Dolin, M.D.University of Baltimore, School of LawBaltimore, MD, USA When picking up a book titled Licensed to Practice: The Supreme Court Defines the American Medical…

August 24, 2015

Book Reviews

Hilde Lindemann, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of Personal Identities, Oxford University Press, 2014  

Anna GotlibBrooklyn College, CUNYBrooklyn, NY, USA One of my favorite sentences in Hilde Lindemann’s lucid and remarkable book, Holding and Letting Go: The Social Practice of…

July 29, 2015

Book Reviews

Barbara K. Redman, Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the Bad-Apple Approach, MIT Press, 2013   

Melissa S. AndersonUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolis, MN, USA In Research Misconduct Policy in Biomedicine: Beyond the Bad-Apple Approach, Barbara Redman recommends that policy…

June 4, 2015

Book Reviews

F. M. Kamm, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives, Oxford University Press, 2013       

Jeffrey BrandGeorge Washington UniversityWashington, DC, USA             F. M. Kamm’s latest book is no stylish page-turner, but it has something in common with…

May 9, 2015