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The Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues
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Baylor College of Medicine, The Institute of Religion, Rice University, Houston, USA
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B. Andrew Lustig
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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- Lisa A. Parker, Athena Beldecos, Donald Ainslie, Nathaniel Hupert, Rachel Ankeny Majeske, Robert Arnold
Pages 7-87
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- Juan Carlos Tealdi, Gustavo Pis Diez, Oscar Esquibel
Pages 113-135
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- David Greaves, Martyn Evans, Rupert Jarvis, Derek Morgan, Neil Pickering
Pages 137-181
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- Anne Fagot-Largeault, Paul-Antoine Miquel
Pages 183-210
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- Ruud H. J. Ter Meulen, Frans C. B. Van Wijmen, Robert Houtepen, Bert C. Molewijk, Ine J. M. Nederveen-Van Der Kragt, Jos C. J. Dute
Pages 211-245
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- Francesc Abel, Ma Pilar Nuñez, Nuria Terribas, Montserrat Viñas
Pages 269-283
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- Jorge Biscaia, Walter Osswald
Pages 285-289
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- Paolo Cattorini, Massimo Reichlin
Pages 291-299
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- Göran Hermerén, Søren Holm, Reidar K. Lie
Pages 301-326
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- The Center for Ethics, Medicine, and Public Issues
Pages 411-411
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Back Matter
Pages 407-433
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nology in New Zealand. Angeles Tan Alora reports on the Code of Pharmaceutical Marketmg Practices developed by the Pharmaceutical and Health Care Association of the Philippines. Ruud ter Meulen and his colleagues provide detailed analysis of the Remmelink Commission's report on euthanasia in the Netherlands. Kazumasa Hoshino discusses the fmdings of the Special Committee on Gene Therapy in Japan. As such examples suggest, the activities of many governmental groups and professional advisory bodies, although varied, tend to converge upon a number of especially important issues. If one peruses the index of documents discussed in Volume Four, certain topics are more often the focus of legislation and official concern than others: withholding and withdrawing treatment, access to health care, consent to treatment and experimentation, and issues posed by HIV testing and AIDS. Such a common focus should not be exaggerated, for the discussion of topics is wide-ranging. But that commonality, when in evidence, is also not surprising. It suggests that key issues and concerns in bioethics may be widely shared among modern cultures and societies, for all the distinctiveness of a particular nation's or region's response to them. Issues of informed consent, after all, implicate more fundamental matters of respect for persons and the rights of individuals in the contexts of therapy and research. Issues of access to medical care concretize deeper questions about the nature and scope of a society's welfare obligations to its citizens.
