Recommended Reading
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American Bioethics: Crossing Human Rights and Health Law Boundaries By George J. Annas This book crosses the borders between bioethics and law, but moves beyond the domestic law/bioethics struggles for dominance by exploring attempts to articulate universal principles based on international human rights. |
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By Peter Singer A philosophical introduction to bioethics. Discusses reproduction, genetics, animal experimentation, genetic screening, pluripotent stem cells, and resource allocation. |
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Principles of Biomedical Ethics By Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress Now in its fourth edition, this seminal work is an extremely thorough revision of the leading textbook of bioethics. Topics include morality and ethical theory, patient autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, |
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Ethics and the Business of Bioscience Eaton discusses the unique ethical challenges biotechnology companies face in research, clinical trials, advertisement, and patient access. She ends by proposing a framework for ethical decision-making. |
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By David L. Finegold , Cecile M Bensimon, Abdallah S. Daar, Margaret L. Eaton , Beatrice Godard, Bartha Maria Knoppers , Jocelyn Mackie and Peter A. Singer This book is the first systematic, detailed treatment of the approaches to ethical issues taken by biotech and pharmaceutical companies. |
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By Rahul K. Dhanda This book examines GM food, DNA data banking, personalized medicine, stem cells. Dhanda describes the benefits of the technology, the ethical challenges, industry’s historical response to ethical problems faced by life science companies. |
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The Strongest Boy in the World By Phillip J. Reilly Physician, geneticist, lawyer and bioethicist Phil Reilly gives us contains twenty engaging stories at the intersection of law, medicine and ethics. |
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Bioethics: An Introduction for the Biosciences By Ben Mepham Begins with a theoretical introduction to ethics and the biosciences. Discusses issues relating to people, plants, animals, and the environment |
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Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry By Michael A. Santoro and Thomas M. Gorrie Santoro and Gorrieas tackle one of the most controversial issues affecting our society: is healthcare an economic commodity or basic human right? What is the pharmaceutical industry's role in balancing affordability and access with sound industrial policy and innovation? |
------ Behaving ethically depends on the ability to recognize that ethical issues exist be seeing events and decisions from an ethical point of view. … this ability to see and respond ethically, whether relating more to attributes of corporate culture of to explicit ethics policies and initiatives, is vital to creating a sustainable bio-business.
— David Finegold
