Research and the Individual Human Studies

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EDITED BV'MAURICE B. STRAUSS, M!D. associate dean and professor of medicine, jufts university school of medicine,
FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONSan extraordina^' collection of medical wit and wisdom through the ages—does, for the medical profession what Little, Brown's Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has done for the literate world in general. Observations and reflections on medicine from doctors, patients, scientists, philosophers, writers, poets, and scribes — from CatJtiay's lííiang Ti, five thousand years ago, to present-day opinions on transplantation and tíirth control — are assembled here in over 950 pages of reliable rá:erence. j
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Ethical Issues in Medicine
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The Role of the Physician in ToUayisSociety
BY 20 AUTHORS ' EDITED BY E. FULLER TORREY, M.D. \
department of psychiatrv, stanford university school w medicine
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In this thought-provoking gyide to,medical... Tovább

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ALSO FROM LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY
Familiar Medical Qüótálions
EDITED BV'MAURICE B. STRAUSS, M!D. associate dean and professor of medicine, jufts university school of medicine,
FAMILIAR MEDICAL QUOTATIONSan extraordina^' collection of medical wit and wisdom through the ages—does, for the medical profession what Little, Brown's Bartlett's Familiar Quotations has done for the literate world in general. Observations and reflections on medicine from doctors, patients, scientists, philosophers, writers, poets, and scribes — from CatJtiay's lííiang Ti, five thousand years ago, to present-day opinions on transplantation and tíirth control — are assembled here in over 950 pages of reliable rá:erence. j
968 pages. No. 819158,115.00 ' ' -
Ethical Issues in Medicine
*
The Role of the Physician in ToUayisSociety
BY 20 AUTHORS ' EDITED BY E. FULLER TORREY, M.D. \
department of psychiatrv, stanford university school w medicine
^ . \ '
In this thought-provoking gyide to,medical ethics, so authors explore a wide variety of timely moral, sociiil, and philosophical 'problems including abortion, artificial insemination, deterdiination of death, euthanasia, professional secrecy, and organ transplantation. Chapters su^h as "The Physician and War," "The Doctors' Right to Strike," and "Medicine and Poverty" will disturb and also stimulate. This book contains fundamental reading for physicians as well as educators, lawyers, theologians, and so'cAl workers.
433 pages. No. 850640, |9,50
In the last century it has become evident that the physician has a duty to go beyond the patient's immediate complaint — a duty, not only to relieve or cure, but to prevent disease. With this concept, the horizons of medicine have broadened immeasurably, and the need for searching out causes, for treating, for testing, for comparing, and for experimenting is no longer a privilege; it has become a duty.
— From the Author's Preface
The growth of medicine depends on responsible conduct in the field of experimentation. Directed at correcting existing abuses and nonethi-cal procedures, RESEARCH AND THE INDIVIDUAL offers a definition of guidelines and degrees of freedom in research. To protect future experimentation from the errors of inexperience,
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Dr. Beecher focuses on a central question: "What are the possible limits and proper conditions for experimentation on human beings?"
The practical suggestions presented here relate to all aspects of research: the subject, the investigator, unethical or questionable material, and the law and human experimentation. Extensive discussions of relevant topics — the use of placebos, the ethics of inducing a disease in a human for study, ethical problems arising in transplantation of tissues and organs, and a new definition of death — are vital considerations for modern medicine.
The ever-increasing scope of experimentation on human beings is a crucial aspect of modern medicine. Every medical practitioner is directly affected by medical research and the problems that it presents. Anyone in practice or research, scientists, lawyers, social scientists, and psychologists will want to read this timely and provocative new book.
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