Society's Choices — Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine

Abstract

""Ethics Bodies in the Executive Branch"". ""SOCIETY'S CHOICES""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""SOURCES OF ETHICAL ISSUES IN BIOMEDICINE""; ""THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF BIOETHICAL PROBLEM SOLVING""; ""SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS""; ""THE SPECTRUM OF SOCIETAL RESPONSES""; ""Political and Legal Mechanisms""; ""Professional and Institutional Mechanisms""; ""Individual and Community Responses""; ""CRITERIA FOR SUCCESS""; ""Intellectual Integrity: Logic, Scholarship, and Sound Judgment""; ""Logic""; ""Scholarship""; ""Sound Judgment""