...Jon F. Merz Books Review Essay Is Human Subjects Research (Ethics) in Crisis? Baruch A. Brody. The Ethics of Biomedical Research: An Interna- tional Perspective. New York: Oxford University...

...David M. Frankford © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References Cherry M. J. 2005 . Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market . Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press . Cohen L. 2002 . The Other Kidney: Biopolitics Beyond...

... population health. George Annas and Wendy Mariner respond with a Counterpoint offering a more skeptical perspective. They argue that “collection of identifiable information requires justification within the human rights framework, in which the default principle is that research requires consent...

... that define the power and limits of governmental institutions. These include human rights, health law, and even medical ethics. The human right to health requires governments not only to respect individual human rights and personal freedoms, but also, importantly, to protect people from harm from external...

.... Recommendations to Improve Access to Health Care through Physician Workforce Reform . Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Donini-Lenhoff, F. G., and H. L. Hedrick. 2000 . Growth of Specialization in Graduate Medical Education. Journal of the American Medical Association 284 : 1284...

... that Silverman et al. have not pursued their arguments about drug distribution and policy a little further. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Peter Temin Robert H. Blank, The Political Implications of Human Genetic Technol- ogy (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1981), 255 pp., $26.50...

... to, not the major focus of, the book, in contrast to the dominance of vaccine hesitance in today's media discourse about vaccines. After nineteen chapters of rather matter-of-fact detail on the benefits of human cell lines derived from aborted fetal lungs for understanding cell longevity and obtaining a virus-free...

...James E. Sabin Erik Parens, ed. Enhancing Human Traits: Ethical and Social Implications (Hastings Center Studies in Ethics). Washington, DC:Georgetown University Press, 1998. 258 pp. $49.95 cloth; $17.95 paper. © 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 JHPPL 26.4-09 Books 7/20/01 3:44 PM...

...Stephen J. Spurr During the last decade there have been enormous advances in the transplantation of vital human organs-in particular, the kidney, lung, heart, liver, pancreas, and small intestine. Unfortunately, efforts to provide the benefits of these operations to patients have been severely...

...Wendy E. Parmet Lawrence O. Gostin and Zita Lazzarini. Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 212 pp. $29.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Books Lawrence O...

...Md. Mahmudur Rahman Bhuiyan Given that there are huge uncertainties about how contemporary advances in human biotechnology are going to affect human life, different scholars try to understand the situation in different ways. This essay reviews four recent books devoted to fostering a fundamental...

... to stay on their parents' policy until age 26. We examine the human capital decisions young adults make once they have an option for health insurance outside of employer-sponsored health insurance. Using the American Community Survey from 2001 to 2016 and a difference-in-differences research design, we...

... of Medicine . New York: Oxford University Press. Conrad, P. 2000 . Medicalization, Genetics, and Human Problems. In Handbook of Medical Sociology , 5th ed., ed. C. E. Bird, P. Conrad, and A. M. Fremont, 322 -333. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Durkheim, E. 1951 . Suicide . New York: Free...

... outcome will provide a unique resource to those faced with policy choices; it will also provide a unique opportunity to lay bare the complex and politically charged relationships evolving between public health and human rights. Duke University Press 2009 Bayer, R. 1989 . Private Acts, Social...

...Henry Hansmann In 1984, federal legislation outlawing payment for human organs for transplantation was adopted after only cursory discussion of the underlying policy issues. More considered analysis suggests that this prohibition may be overly broad. It appears possible to design suitably regulated...

... competition and thus lower costs, improve service effectiveness, and enhance program quality. An increasingly common form of privatization in health and human services is contracting with nonprofit organizations. Such contracting, in practice, does not follow market principles but is, instead, fraught...

... genetics is not due to scientific discoveries about population differences per se, but follows from how the United States and other governments have organized racial categories. This article explains tensions in U.S. government guidelines and publications on the study of human genetic diversity, points out...

...Jennifer Klein Cathie Jo Martin. Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 264 pp. $52.50 cloth; $19.95 paper; $14.95 e-book. © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Gordon, Colin. 1994 . New Deals...

...Anne M. Dellinger Susan E. Lederer, Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America before the Second World War . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 192 pp. $32.95 cloth. Michael A. Grodin and Leonard H. Glantz, eds. Children as Research Subjects: Science, Ethics...

...Abraham B. Bergman, M.D. Copyright © 1978 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University Press 1978 Guest Editorial Needed: Humanism in Health Program Managers Abraham B. Bergman, M.D., Children’s Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, Washington...