Product Description: In hospital rooms across the country, doctors, nurses, patients, and their families grapple with questions of life and death. Recently, they have been joined at the bedside by a new group of professional experts, bioethicists, whose presence raises a host of urgent questions...read more

Product Description: This book is a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between the social sciences and the appearance and growth of bioethics, and provides new analysis on how ordinary questions become “bioethical” questions. Provides new analysis on the variations between different countries and their health systems Questions why some bioethical issues fail to attract the attention of bioethicists Investigates the effect of the rise of bioethics in the field of medical sociology An essential text for medical sociologists, medical anthropologists, bioethicists, and to the increasingly large audience of those interested in the relationship between the social sciences and bioethics...read more

On its initial publication, Forgive and Remember emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, this updated second edition of Charles L. Bosk's classic study is as timely as ever.

Offers an inside view of the work of a genetic counseling team, using case histories to illustrate the clinical applications of human genetics research