Research Catalog

Title

Innovation in medical technology : ethical issues and challenges / Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy.

Author

Eaton, Margaret L.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Kennedy, Donald L.

Description

xii, 155 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This study examines the ethical, legal, and social problems that arise with cutting-edge medical technology. Using as examples four powerful and largely unregulated technologies - off-label use of drugs, innovative surgery, assisted reproduction, and neuroimaging - Margaret L. Eaton and Donald Kennedy illustrate the difficult challenges faced by clinicians, researchers, and policy makers who seek to advance the frontiers of medicine safely and responsibly. Supported by medical history and case studies and drawing on reports from dozens of experts, the authors address important practical, ethical, and policy issues."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Medical technology > Moral and ethical aspects
• Technology Assessment, Biomedical > ethics
• Professional Practice
• Medical ethics
• Diffusion of Innovation
• Medical innovations > Moral and ethical aspects
• Biomedical Research

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-149) and index.

Contents

Introduction : the need to ask questions about innovation -- 1. Distinguishing innovative medical practice from research -- 2. The modern history of human research ethics -- 3. Innovation in the off-label use of drugs -- 4. Innovative surgery -- 5. Innovation in assisted reproduction -- 6. Innovation in neuroimaging -- 7. Questions, issues, and recommendations going forward -- Conclusion : final thoughts on the landscape of innovation -- App. A. Directives for human experimentation : Nuremburg code -- App. B. World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki -- App. C. Description of Department of Health and Human Services regulations for the protection of human subjects -- App. D. Participants in Lasker Forum on Ethical Challenges in Biomedical Research and Practice.

ISBN

• 9780801885266 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801885264 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006019823

OCLC

• ocm70164452
• 70164452
• SCSB-5319408

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries