TY - BOOK ID - 85296598 TI - Bioethics in action AU - Baylis, Françoise AU - Dreger, Alice Domurat PY - 2018 SN - 1108584071 1316343197 1108695701 1107120896 1107543932 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Bioethics. KW - Medical laws and legislation. KW - Human experimentation in medicine KW - Human body KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Law, Medical KW - Medical personnel KW - Medical registration and examination KW - Medicine KW - Physicians KW - Surgeons KW - Medical policy KW - Medical jurisprudence KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Law and legislation. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Law and legislation KW - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85296598 AB - Speaking from and to the growing movement among academics to become involved with 'socially-engaged' work, this volume presents first-person case studies of attempts to fix serious ethical problems in medical practice and research. It highlights the critical difference between the pundit approach to bioethics and the interventional approach - the talkers and the doers - and points to how abused and damaged the doers often end up. Chapters cover a diverse set of topics, including the troubling influence of for-profit businesses on public health policy, the politics of exposing histories of unjust medical research, the challenges of patient rights' work in sexuality and reproduction, collaborations between NGOs and academics, methods for changing entrenched yet harmful medical practices, engaging public policy through educating governmental leaders, and whistleblowing. The trending interest in the interplay of academia and advocacy and the growing importance of 'socially-engaged' work by academics make this a timely and much-needed resource. ER -