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by Albert R. Jonsen, 208 pp, $65, ISBN 0-7425-4523-7, paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-7425-4524-5, Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

JAMA. 2006;295:700.

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Professor Jonsen continues to augment his library of concise and lucid writings that explain in accessible language the sometimes convoluted and often misrepresented workings of bioethics and medical ethics. In Bioethics Beyond the Headlines, Jonsen, the preeminent historian of biomedical ethics, dissects media headlines and elucidates the medicine, science, law, and philosophy behind them. This primer would be welcomed by curious readers and by professionals in medicine and law who need to review the issues addressed.

In the section "Clinical Bioethics," chapter topics include "Defining Death," "Foregoing Life Support," "Autonomy of the Patient," "Euthanasia," "Organ Transplantation," "Assisted Reproduction," and "Abortion." In the section "Scientific Bioethics," the topics comprise "Research With Humans," "Genetics," "Neuroscience," and "Cloning and Stem Cell Research." "The Wider World of Bioethics" explores subjects much less frequently addressed in bioethics books, namely, "Bioethics and the Health Care System," "Cultural Bioethics," "Animal Ethics," and "Environmental Ethics."

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Fredrick R. Abrams, MD, Reviewer
Clinical Ethics Consultation Group
Denver, Col
frabrams@aol.com

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