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- Should Epidemiologists and Other Health Scientists Become Advocates for Social Policies?
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Authors: Crandall, Lee A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Year: 2003Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:31
- Planning for an influenza pandemic
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Authors: Uscher-Pines, Lori ; Duggan, Patrick S. ; Garoon, Joshua P. ; Karron, Ruth A. ; Faden, Ruth R.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article discusses how countries should take special measures to mitigate the effect of an influenza pandemic on existing social inequalities. According to the authors, the potential for a pandemic to aggravate existing social an...
Year: 2007Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 17:02
- Children's Health Inequalities : Ethical and Political Challenges to Seeking Social Justice
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Authors: Blacksher, Erika
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article examines the disproportionate health problems that affect disadvantaged children, using U.S. childhood obesity as a case study. It traces the sources and nature of the harms to children and then tries to draw out some im...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0035Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:28
- The Hippocratic Underground : Civil Disobedience and Health Care Reform
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Authors: Macauley, Robert
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Offers observation on how physicians in the U.S. engage in civil disobedience to provide necessary medical care for patients. Reason behind the need to reform the health care system; Definition of civil disobedience; Practicalities ...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.001Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:18
- Justice and the Human Development Approach to International Research
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Authors: London, Alex John
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Illustrates how agnosticism about broader issues of social justice can lead to the minimalist view. Goal of the collaborative international medical research; Reason the minimalist approach is inadequate; Moral relevance of social an...
Year: 2005
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2005.0009Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:18
- Medicine and human rights
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Authors: Grodin, Michael A. ; Annas, George J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Asserts that an international medical tribunal should be established with power to impose criminal sanctions against physicians who are guilty against humanity. Historical context of physician participation in human rights abuses, c...
Year: 1993Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:55
- Research in Developing Countries: Taking `Benefit' Seriously
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Authors: Glantz, Leonard H. ; Annas, George J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the issues presented by medical research in developing countries. Collection of blood samples from a group of extremely impoverished people in the Philippine island of Cebu; African maternal-fetal HIV transmission studies;...
Year: 1998Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:53
- Justice and Managed Care : Four Principles for the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources
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Authors: Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the principles involved in the just allocation of health care resources in the United States. Dimensions of justice in health care; Interpretations and implementations of the principles; Practical implications of the princ...
Year: 2000Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:44
- What's Wrong with the Global Migration of Health Care Professionals?
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Authors: Dwyer, James
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: An essay is presented on the global migration of health care professionals. Majority of physicians in New Zealand, Great Britain, Australia, the U.S. and Canada are foreign medical graduates who emigrated from low and middle income ...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2007.0070Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:42
- Is justice enough? Ends and means in bioethics
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Authors: Daniels, Norman ; Emanuel, Ezekiel J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on ends and means in bioethics. Relationship between medical research and fairness in health care; Impact of modern medical progress; Fair procedures and goals of medicine; Civic Republicanism and deliberative democracy....
Year: 1996Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:33
- Equity and Population Health : Toward a Broader Bioethics Agenda
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Authors: Daniels, Norman
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic view that misses the institutional context...
Year: 2006
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2006.0058Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:33
- Biotech and Justice : Catching up with the Real World Order
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Authors: Cahill, Lisa Sowle
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Social policy questions in the U.S. are often framed in terms of individual rights, valorizing individual freedom and self-determination. But this focus obscures the social and economic bases of health and disease. U.S. bioethics, a...
Year: 2003Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:17
- Public Goods and Fair Prices : Balancing Technological Innovation with Social Well-Being
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Authors: Brody, Baruch
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on bioethics issues concerning the pricing of drugs and other technological innovations funded by public dollars. Background on technology transfer; Reasonable prices for the products of technology transfer; Provision of pub...
Year: 1996Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:15
- Health care services in a new South Africa
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Authors: Benatar, Solomon R. ; van Rensburg, H. C. J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses South Africa's attempts at meeting challenges posed by the creation of a new health care system. National Health Plan published by the African National Congress; Source of threats to health services and academic medicine; ...
Year: 1995Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:10
- The democracy problem
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Authors: Baily, Mary Ann
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Responds to Norman Daniels' challenge in his presentation to the International Association of Bioethics on four key problems facing those who must provide medical care in a climate of scarce resources. How individual preferences inf...
Year: 1994Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:08
- Moral Standards for Research in Developing Countries From "Reasonable Availability" to "Fair Benefits"
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Authors: English, Michael ; Koram, Kwando A. ; Clerk, Christine Alexandra ; Agbenyega, Tsiri ; Anto, Francis ; Setouhy, Maged El
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses moral standards for conducting clinical research in developing countries. Disagreement over the guidelines governing the availability of products developed during a study; Factors that could contribute to the exploitation ...
Year: 2004Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:01
- Belief in a Just World: A Case Study in Public Health Ethics
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Authors: Scott, Charity
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The essay examines the public opinion in the U.S. towards providing public assistance to those in need. It cites an article in "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution," which profiled a working-class married couple whose children were enr...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2008.0006Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:41
- Slipping through the Net: Social Vulnerability in Pandemic Planning
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Authors: Mastroianni, Anna C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article discusses the steps necessary in formulating pandemic planning policies to better address social vulnerabilities to mortality and morbidity. It notes that undocumented workers who cannot avoid social distancing are misse...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0186Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:36
- How Should the Benefits of Bioprospecting Be Shared?
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Authors: Millum, Joseph
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article discusses the ethics of bioprospecting. The term biosprospecting is defined as the search for novel biological products in places around the world rich in biological resources. The places discovered turn out to be in dev...
Year: 2010
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.0.0227Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:36
- Transforming Genetic Research Practices with Marginalized Communities: A Case for Responsive Justice
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Authors: Goering, Sara ; Holland, Suzanne ; Fryer-Edwards, Kelly
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article presents a case for responsive justice in genetics research with marginalized communities. In doing so, it considers the application of John Rawls' concept of distributive justice in genetic medicine and research. Standa...
Year: 2008
DOI: 10.1353/hcr.2008.0027Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-10 17:32
- Convention Boycott on Cincinnati
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Authors: Keller, David R. ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are the Executive Director of a large professional association planning your organization's annual convention. While the association's board approved your earlier recommendation that he be held in Cincinnati,in the intervening m...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Convention%20Boycott%20on%20Cincinnati.pdfBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-06 15:13
- A Right to Benefit from International Research: A New Approach to Capacity Building in Less-Developed Countries
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Authors: White, Mary Terrell
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: This article proposes a means by which benefits provided in international research collaborations might be employed to strengthen health care, research, and other capacities in less-developed countries.By guaranteeing host communiti...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1080/08989620701290341Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 18:22
- Access to HIV Treatments in Developing Countries
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Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case explores the challenged faced by developing countries for providing citizens access to HIV medications when the cost of these treatments are extremely high in relation to individual incomes, governmental health budgets, an...
Year: 2010
URL: http://www.umass.edu/sts/ethics/hiv.htmlBiblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-31 13:53
- Closing the Gap : Antiretroviral Therapy for the Developing World
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Authors: Pals-Rylaarsdam, Robin ; Benedictine University, Department of Biological Science
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In this problem-based learning/role playing case, students apply their knowledge of the biology of HIV/AIDS and antiretroviral therapy to developing foreign aid policy for the HIV/AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. The case was crea...
Year: 2003
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=426&id=426Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:46
- The Case of a Tropical Disease and its Treatment : Science, Society, and Economics
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Authors: Santanello, Cathy R. ; Rehg, Jennifer ; Southern Illinois University, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences ; Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Anthropology
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case study highlights the epidemiological and socioeconomic factors associated with a disease which plagues thousands of people in Central and South America. The case follows the story of Adrian, a banana plantation worker in s...
Year: 2007
URL: http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/collection/detail.asp?case_id=320&id=320Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-15 11:50
