BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviewed in this Article:
Economics, Medicine and Health Care by Gavin H. Mooney
Making Choices: Ethics Issues for Health Care Professionals –Challenges of health care rationing and resource allocation, patients'rights, and providers'responsibilities Edited by Emily Friedman
High Technology Medicine: Benefits & Burdens by Bryan Jennett
The Foundations of Justice: Why The Retarded And The Rest Of Us Have Claims to Equality by Robert M. Veatch
Ethics in Nursing, 2nd Edition, by M. Benjamin & J. Curtis
Philosophical Medical Ethics by Raanan Gillon
Life Before Birth: Consensus in Medical Ethics by Kenneth Boyd     

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Book Reviws in this Article
The Human Body and the Law, 2nd edition by D.W. Meyers, Edinburgh University Press, 1990
Classic Cases in Medical Ethics by Gregory E. Pence. New York: McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. 1990
Changing Values in Medical and Health Care Decision Making, edited by Uffejuul Jensen and Gavin Mooney. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1990
IVF and Justice by Teresa Iglesias, London: The Linacre Centre For Health Care Ethics, 1990
The Practical, Moral and Personal Sense of Nursing: A Phenomenon-ological Philosophy of Practice by Anne H. Bishop and John R. Scudder, Jr. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990
A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer. Oxford and Cambridge, Mass: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
Ethics and Law in Health Care and Research edited by Peter Byrne, Chichester, UK: 1990
The Human Embryo edited by G.R. Dunstan, Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1990
Everyday Ethics: Resolving Dilemmas in Nursing Home Life by Rosalie A. Kane and Arthur L. Caplan. N.Y.: Springer Publishing Company, 1990
Psychiatric Ethics, 2nd edition, edited by S. Bloch and P. Chodoff. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991
Health Care and Gender by Charlotte Muller. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1990     

Book Review

Book reviewed:
Torbjörn Tännsjö Coercive Care: The Ethics of Choice in Health and Medicine     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book Reviws in this Article Meta-Medical Ethics: The Philosophical Foundations of Bioethics, edited by Michael A. Grodin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995 Autonoaty and Intervention: Parentalism in the Caring Life, by Job Kultgen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995 Long-Term Care Decisions, Ethical and Conceptual Dimensions, edited by Laurence McCullough and Nancy Wilson. Baltimore; The John Hopkins University Press, 1995 Contemplating Suicide: The Language and Ethics of Self Harm by Gavin Fairbairn. Landon and New York: Routledge, 1995     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Life and Death Decision Making by Baruch A. Brody.
The Sanctity-of-Life Doctrine in Medicine:A Critique by Helga Kuhse.
Guidelines on the Termination of Life-sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying
Life Sustaining Technologies and the Elderly , U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment:U.S. Government Printing Office
Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care , edited by Stuart F. Spicker, Stanley R. Ingman and Ian R. Lawson.
GenEthik:Probleme der Technisierung menschlicher Fortpflanzung. by Kurt Bayertz.
Aids:Ethics and Public Policy , Edited by Christine Pierce and Donald VanDeVeer, Belmont
Tough Decisions A Casebook in Medical Ethics by John M. Freeman and Kevin McDonnell
If We Can Keep A Severed Head Alive , by Chet Fleming
Murderous Science:Elimination by Scientific Selection of Jews, Gypsies     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Standard of Care by George J. Annas. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medicine, Money and Morals by Marc A. Rodwin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
Medical Ethics Today: Its Practice and Philosophy , British Medical Association. London: BMJ Publishers, 1993
Biomedical Ethics Reviews: 1992 edited by James M. Huber and Robert F. Almeder. Totawa, New Jersey: Humana Press, 1993     

Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices

Extending the Boundaries of Care. Medical Ethics and Caring Practices. Tamara Kohn and Rosemary McKechnie. eds. New York: Berg, 1999. 206 pp.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Teresa Chikako Maruyama, Hospice Care and Culture: A Comparison of the Hospice Movement in the West and Japan
Peggy DesAutels, Margaret P. Battin and Larry May, Praying for a cure. When medical and religious practices conflict
Tod Chambers, The Fiction of Bioethics Cases As Literary Texts
Janice M. Brencick and Glenn A. Webster, Philosophy of Nursing. A New Vision for Health Care
Sidney Bloch, Paul Chodoff and Stephen A. Green (eds.), Psychiatric Ethics, Third Edition
Mark J. Cherry, Persons and Their Bodies: Rights, Responsibilities, Relationships
Alice Domurat Dreger, Intersex in the Age of Ethics     

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Book Reviws in this Article
The Misfortunes of Others: End-Stage Renal Disease in the United Kingdom, by Thomas Halper.
Centre for Early Human Development, Monash University
The Caring Imperative in Education, edited by Madeleine Leininger and Jean Watson, New York: National League for Nursing, 1990
Toward a Caring Curriculum: A New Pedagogy for Nursing, by Em Olivia Bevis and Jean Watson, New York: National League for Nursing, 1989
The Ethics of Care and the Ethics of Cure: Synthesis in Chronicity, edited by Jean Watson and Marilyn A.
Human Life and Medical Practice, by J.K. Mason, Edinburgh University Press
Preventing Birth: Contemporary Methods and Related Moral Controversies, by James W. Knight and Joan C. Callahan, Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989
Social Science Perspectives on Medical Ethics, edited by George Weisz, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1990     

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Books reviewed
Ronald A. Carson and Chester R. Burns, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Analysis and Recommendations for Public Policy
Mark G. Kuczewski and Rosa Lynn B. Pinkus, An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases
Lainie Friedman Ross, Children, Families, and Health Care Decision-Making     

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By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water. Edited by Joanne Lynn, M.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Healthy Respect; Ethics in Health Care by R. S. Downie and K. C. Caiman
Ethical Dilemmas in Health Promotion by Spyros Doxiades
Department of Medical History & Ethics University of Washington Seattle
Mixed Blessings by Jeanne Harley Guillemin and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom
Ethics in the Hospital Setting, edited by Bruce D. Weinstein, Morgantown
Ethics in the Hospital Setting, edited by Bruce D. Weinstem, Morgantown, W.V.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Am I My Parents’Keeper?, by Norman Daniels Legal Issues in Human Reproduction, Edited by Sheila A.M. McLean Health Care Systems: Moral Conflicts in European and American Public Policy, edited by Hans-Martin Sass and Robert U. Massey Ethics in nursing practice: Basic Principles and their Application, by F.J. Fitzpatrick     

Book Reviews

Cannold, Leslie The Abortion Myth: Feminism, Morality, and the Hard Choices Women Make
Murphy, Timothy F. Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research
Humber, James A. and Almeder, Robert F. Alternative Medicine and Ethics
Battin, Margaret P., Rhodes, Rosamond and Silvers, Anita (eds) Physician Assisted Medicine: Expanding the Debate
Baume, Peter (ed.) The Tasks of Medicine — An Ideology of Health Care     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Principles of Health Care Ethics , edited by Raanan Gillon with the assistance of Ann Lloyd
Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women's Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn , by Robert Blank
Das kontrollierte Töten. Lebensethikgegen Euthanasie und Eugenik , by Franco Rest. Gütersloher Verlagshaus Gerd Mohn, Gütersloh     

BOOK REVIEWS

Special Care: Medical Decisions at the Beginning of Life, by Fred Fronhock
Playing God in the Nursery, by Jeff Lyons
Withholding Treatment From Defective Newborn Children, Joseph E. Magnet and Eike-Henner W. Kluge
Center for Ethics, Medicine and Public Issues Baylor College of Medicine
LAW AND MORALS by Simon Lee. Oxford
The Foetus as Organ donor: Scientific, Social and Ethical Perspectives. By Peter McCullagh
Transplantation Unit The Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviews in this Article:
AIDS and the Good Society , by Patricia Illingworth
Genethics: The moral issues in the creation of people , by David Heyd
AIDS: Diritti & Doveri del Personale delle Instituzioni di Assistenza Sanitaria , Milano.
AIDS, Women and the Next Generation: Towards a Morally Acceptable Public Policy for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns edited by Ruth R. Faden
Rights to Health Care (Philosophy and Medicine 38 ), edited by Thomas J. Bole III and William B. Bondeson, Dordrecht
Theological Developments in Bioethics: 1988–1990 edited by Baruch A. Brody, B. Andrew Lustig, H. Tristram Engelhardt Jr. and Laurence B. McCullough
Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice, Commerce , edited by W. Land and J.B. Dossetor
Regelungen der Fortpflanzungsmedizin und Humangenetik. Eine Internationale Dokumentation gesetzlicher und berufsständischer Rechtsquellen (Regulations of Procreative Medicine and Genetic Research on Humans.
Practical Medical Ethics by Alistair Campbell, Grant Gillett and Gareth Jones
Balancing Act: The New Medical Ethics of Medicine's New Economics by E. Haavi Morreim.
Bioethics and Secular Humanism by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. London: SCM Press     

BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Judging Medicine , by George J Annas, New Jersy, Humana Press.
Informed Consent Legal Theory and Clinical Practice by Paul S Appelbaum, Charles W Lidz and Alan Meisel.
Ethical Issues in The Psychotherapies by Martin Lakin.
Medical Ethics and Economics in Health Care Edited by Gavin Mooney and Alistair McGuire.
Rationing Medicine by Robert H Blank.
Questioni di bioetica , Edited by Maurizio Mori, Editori Riuniti, Roma.     

The Health Care Ethics Consultant, edited by Françoise Baylis

The Health Care Ethics Consultant marks a stage in the development of ethics consultancy. Ethics consultancy is a manifestation of a newly secularized society in which a new discipline has developed to fill a gap created by the combination of the diminishing influence of traditional moral authorities and the growth of new problems associated with the development of new technology and changes in society and culture. The stated primary objective of the book is to focus attention on an immediate practical problem: the role and responsibilities, the education and training, and the certification and accreditation of health ethics consultants. An edited collection of articles, the book originated as a research project financed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, undertaken by a Strategic Research Network which included faculty members from Dalhousie University, McGill University, the University of Toronto, McMaster University and the University of Calgary.     

The intellectual basis of bioethics in Southern European countries

Today the Western world harbors, at least, three very different ethical traditions, each with its own characteristics: the Anglo-Saxon, the Northern (or Central) European, and the Mediterranean. Because modern bioethics made its appearance in the Anglo-American culture, Europeans in general, and Mediterraneans in particular, have attempted not simply to "import" or "translate" bioethics, but rather to "recreate" or "remake" the discipline according to their own cultural and ethical traditions. In my presentation, I would like to explain the peculiarities of Mediterranean bioethics, analyzing the following seven points: First, how they think bioethics should be philosophically founded; Second, the Mediterranean ethics of virtue and the doctor-patient relationship; Third, the relationship between Ethics and Law; Fourth, Health Care Systems and Ethics, Fifth, the problems concerning patient rights; Sixth, ethics by Committees; and finally, some general conclusions.