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The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences
Raymond De Vries (Editor), Leigh Turner (Editor), Kristina Orfali (Editor), Charles Bosk (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5269-3
Paperback
232 pages
June 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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