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Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel: How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, Beacon Press, 2014    

Robert Arnold, MDDepartment of MedicineUniversity of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA, USA It is interview season for our residency. So I spend a good deal of time reading—…

March 6, 2015

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Bernard G. Prusak, Parental Obligations and Bioethics: The Duties of a Creator, Routledge, 2013       

Jake EarlDepartment of PhilosophyGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA  Parental Obligations and Bioethics: The Duties of a Creator collects and supplements Bernard G.…

December 12, 2014

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Robert Baker, Before Bioethics: A History of American Medical Ethics from the Colonial Period to the Bioethics Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2013 

 James C. MohrDepartment of HistoryUniversity of OregonEugene, OR, USA         The history of American medical ethics is a notoriously unwieldy field that encompasses an…

August 11, 2014

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Tom Koch, Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medicine, MIT Press, 2012  

Tom L. BeauchampKennedy Institute of Ethics and Department of PhilosophyGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA The principal thesis in this book is that bioethics emerged—in…

August 11, 2014

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Robert H. Blank, Intervention in the Brain: Politics, Policy, and Ethics, MIT Press, 2013 

Bryce HuebnerDepartment of PhilosophyGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA Robert H. Blank has set his sights high in Intervention in the Brain.He presents a carefully…

July 9, 2014

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Christine Overall, Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate, MIT Press, 2012        

Karen StohrKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA Christine Overall’s book, Why Have Children?: The Ethical Debate, begins with what would seem…

May 14, 2014

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Announcing KIEJ Book Reviews

The KIEJ is proud to introduce our new series of online reviews of books in bioethics, practical ethics, and the ethical, social, and legal dimensions of science and medicine.…

May 1, 2014

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John Broome, Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World, W. W. Norton and Co., 2012

Madison Powers, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA John Broome’s Climate Matters is a timely, elegant, and accessible book. His…

April 28, 2014

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Fabrizio Amerini, Aquinas on the Beginning and End of Human Life, trans. Mark Henninger, Harvard University Press, 2013          

John LanganKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA The ongoing and apparently interminable debate over the moral and legal status of abortion has come…

April 1, 2014

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Philip Kitcher, Science in a Democratic Society, Prometheus Books, 2011  

Henry S. RichardsonKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA         In examining the place of science in a democratic society, Philip Kitcher…

April 1, 2014