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Ethics, Medical Research and Medicine
. Ed(S): Thompson, Andrew; Temple, Norman J.; Shergill, Iqbal S.
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Description for Ethics, Medical Research and Medicine
Hardback. Examines critically the poverty of medical ethics. This book documents how commercialization of research, especially in the pharmaceutical industry, leads to seriously distorted information being disseminated to physicians. It makes radical proposals for reforming these problems. Editor(s): Thompson, Andrew; Temple, Norman J.; Shergill, Iqbal S. Num Pages: 195 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MBDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 482.
Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple We humans are an extraordinary species. One of our finest achievements is the development of morality, of a sense of right and wrong. We articulate and then impose this sensitivity upon ourselves in the form of ethical guidelines, rules, regulations, and laws. We have, regrettably, also developed marvelously clever ways of justifying our behavior whenever it runs afoul of these prescriptions. We have, for example, developed the concept of objectivity to guide scientific pursuits and subsequently established rights which undermine the possibility of ever coming close to attaining the goal of being objective -- rights ... Read more
Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple We humans are an extraordinary species. One of our finest achievements is the development of morality, of a sense of right and wrong. We articulate and then impose this sensitivity upon ourselves in the form of ethical guidelines, rules, regulations, and laws. We have, regrettably, also developed marvelously clever ways of justifying our behavior whenever it runs afoul of these prescriptions. We have, for example, developed the concept of objectivity to guide scientific pursuits and subsequently established rights which undermine the possibility of ever coming close to attaining the goal of being objective -- rights ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Number of Pages
195
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792370840
SKU
V9780792370840
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