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- catalog abstract "Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides--which are often indistinguishable. In this book, the author teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to justify cutting moral corners. Exploring the National Institutes of Health's annual budget, the inflated estimates of health care cost savings that result from research, the high prices charged by drug companies, the use and misuse of human subjects for medical testing, and the controversies surrounding human cloning and stem cell research, he clarifies the fine line between doing good and doing harm in the name of medical progress. His work shows that medical research must be understood in light of other social and economic needs and how even the research imperative, dedic.".
- catalog contributor b13000953.
- catalog contributor b13000954.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-308) and index.".
- catalog description "Medical research, with its power to attract money and political support, and its promise of cures for a wide range of medical burdens, has good and bad sides--which are often indistinguishable. In this book, the author teases out the distinctions and differences, revealing the difficulties that result when the research imperative is suffused with excessive zeal, adulterated by the profit motive, or used to justify cutting moral corners. Exploring the National Institutes of Health's annual budget, the inflated estimates of health care cost savings that result from research, the high prices charged by drug companies, the use and misuse of human subjects for medical testing, and the controversies surrounding human cloning and stem cell research, he clarifies the fine line between doing good and doing harm in the name of medical progress. His work shows that medical research must be understood in light of other social and economic needs and how even the research imperative, dedic.".
- catalog description "The emergence and growth of the research imperative -- Protecting the integrity of science -- Is research a moral obligation? -- Curing the sick, helping the suffering, enhancing the well -- Assessing risks and benefits -- Using humans for research -- Pluralism, balance, and controversy -- Doing good and doing well -- Advocacy and priorities for research -- Research and the public interest.".
- catalog extent "xii, 329 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0520227719 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "California/Milbank books on health and the public ; 9".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley ; University of California Press ; New York : Milbank Memorial Fund,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "610/.7/2073 21".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Research United States.".
- catalog subject "Ethics, Research".
- catalog subject "Medicine Research Social aspects United States.".
- catalog subject "Morals United States.".
- catalog subject "Morals".
- catalog subject "R853.S64 C35 2003".
- catalog subject "Research United States.".
- catalog subject "Research".
- catalog subject "W 20.5 C156w 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "The emergence and growth of the research imperative -- Protecting the integrity of science -- Is research a moral obligation? -- Curing the sick, helping the suffering, enhancing the well -- Assessing risks and benefits -- Using humans for research -- Pluralism, balance, and controversy -- Doing good and doing well -- Advocacy and priorities for research -- Research and the public interest.".
- catalog title "What price better health? : hazards of the research imperative / Daniel Callahan.".
- catalog type "text".