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Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy, Volume II (Debates Over Medical Authority, New Challenges in Biomedical Experimentation)
Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy Volume II - Debates Over Medical Authority, New Challenges in Biomedical Experimentation Author:Robert H. Blank This is the second volume of Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy: An Annual Review, a series that focuses on cutting-edge issues in biomedical policy and brings together the perspectives of lawyers, scientists, physicians, legislators, and civil servants. Volume II focuses on two areas of medical policy beset by conflict: decisions invo... more »lving end-of-life technologies and rules governing medical experimentation. Part I, "Debates over Authority in Medical Decision Making," addresses the battles being fought over whether and when life-extending technologies should be used or withdrawn. Part II, "New Challenges in Biomedical Experimentation," grapples with the volatile issue of human experimentation, and it questions what happens when the line between research and treatment becomes blurred and patients and physicians are transformed into merely subjects and researchers. A recurring theme in this collection is the notion of medical populism-a new political activism aimed at asserting more control over medicine. The issues debated and discussed in Emerging Issues in Biomedical Policy will appeal to scholars, students, and policymakers in medical ethics, biomedical policy, economics, and health law. The issues are of immense contemporary importance and are certain to remain pertinent well into the future.« less