All Posts: Book Review
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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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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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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
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Helen Longino, Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality, University of Chicago Press, 2013
Rebecca KuklaKennedy Institute of EthicsGeorgetown UniversityWashington, DC, USA In Studying Human Behavior: How Scientists Investigate Aggression and…
March 31, 2014