Bøger i Studies in Social Medicine serien

Amid ongoing debate about health care reform, the need for informed analyses of health policy is greater than ever. The twelve original essays in this volume show that common public debates routinely bypass complex ethical, sociocultural, historical, and political questions about how we should address ideals of justice and equality in health care.

These essays provide the groundwork for a philosophical discussion of the ethical and cultural dimensions of the popularity of SSRI antidepressants. They do not question that these drugs can alleviate suffering. What they do question is the popularity of these drugs and that popularity's relationship to American culture and ideas of selfhood.

In February 2003, an undocumented immigrant teen, Jesica Santillan, from Mexico lay dying in a prominent American hospital due to a stunning medical oversight. This volume draws together experts from various fields to understand the dramatic events, the major players, and the core issues at stake.

Between 1932 and 1972 approximately 600 African American men in Alabama served unwittingly as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee syphilis study. This volume gathers articles, contemporary newspaper accounts, selections from reports and letters, and other reconsiderations of the study.

A re-examination of research ethics across a broad range of disciplines. It combines case studies and commentaries by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and researchers to explore such issues as informed consent, conflict of interest, confidentiality, and research on illegal behaviour.

Nurses have used a variety of tools, instruments and machines to appraise, treat and comfort patients. Tracing the relationship between nursing and technology from 1870 to the present, this text shows that technology has helped shape dilemmas in nursing and advance the profession's development.

Combining attention to lived experience with the critical tools of ethics, this book explores why many women who use the tools of high-tech assisted reproduction tend to use them repeatedly, even when the results are unsuccessful. This book offers a humanistic account of infertility and its resolution in a twenty-first-century American context.