Bioethics
The LRC has long focused on purchasing books related to bioethics. This is merely a sampling of the most recent, most popular, and most interesting books on bioethics out there. Several of them may be mentioned in your bioethics class.
If you have a particular interest in bioethics, you may also wish to search the library catalog for books on topics like:
- Professionalism
- Euthanasia
- Genetic engineering and ethics
- Terminal care and ethics
- Medical research and ethics
- Clinical trials and ethics
- Drugs and ethics
- Human experimentation
- Autonomy
- Informed Consent
- Paternalism
- Malfeasance
- Social justice
- Tissue and organ procurement
- Eugenics
Many books featured in the global health area are also about ethical topics like pharmaceutical experimentation overseas, human rights, and social justice.
See our complete guide to Bioethics and Professionalism resources
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No way outCall Number: ask at deskPublication Date: E185.615 .N6 2005xAbout racism in medicine (1950)
Something the Lord madeCall Number: RC687 .S65 2004x AVISBN: 078312404XConsiders issues of racism in medicine in the Jim Crow south
Pills, profits, protest : a chronicle of the global AIDS movementCall Number: RA643.8 .P55 2005x AV
Bioethics Books
Doctors from hell : the horrific account of Nazi experiments on humansCall Number: R853.H8 S68 2005ISBN: 1591810329This book is highly recommended. The author, Vivien Spitz, was court reporter at the doctors' trial at Nuremburg. This is her story, taken from memory and from her notes at the trial. Of all the books on Nazi medicine, this is the quickest read--but also one of the most disturbing.
The immortal life of Henrietta LacksCall Number: RC265.6.L24 S55 2010ISBN: 1400052173There have been nothing but rave reviews of this book about the questionable origin of HeLA cells. It's highly recommended!
Examining Tuskegee : the infamous syphilis study and its legacyCall Number: R853.H8 R48 2009 c.2ISBN: 080783310XOne of the most egregious violations of medical ethics in this country, the Tuskegee syphilis experiments continued into 1970's.
Demon doctors : physicians as serial killersCall Number: R706 .I83 2002ISBN: 1883620295Students who read this book found it fascinating. The most common profession of serial murderers is doctor; nurse is the second most common. This is the story of 15 physician serial murderers.
Blind Eye by Call Number: HV6248.S76 S78 1999ISBN: 0684854848about physician and serial killer Michael Swango
The case of Terri Schiavo : ethics, politics, and death in the 21st centuryCall Number: R726 .C358 2010ISBN: 0195399080
Neonatal bioethics : the moral challenges of medical innovationCall Number: Humanities RJ253.5 .L37 2006 c.3ISBN: 080188344X
Clinical Ethics by Call Number: Online and R724 .J66 2015ISBN: 0071845062Publication Date: 2015-06-30
Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Call Number: R724 .B36 2013ISBN: 0199924589Publication Date: 2012-10-22
Medicine after the Holocaust : from the master race to the human genome and beyondCall Number: R509 .M43 2010xISBN: 0230621929
Death of medicine in Nazi Germany : dermatology and dermatopathology under the swastikaCall Number: RL46 .W49 1998bISBN: 1568331223
Justice at Nuremberg : Leo Alexander and the Nazi doctors' trialCall Number: R853.H8 S345 2006ISBN: 0230006418
The ethics of surgical practice : cases, dilemmas, and resolutionsCall Number: RD27.7 .J66 2008 c.2ISBN: 019532109X
Bioethics beyond the headlines : who lives? who dies? who decides?Call Number: R724 .J655 2005ISBN: 0742545245
The Nazi doctors and the Nuremberg Code : human rights in human experimentationCall Number: R853.H8 N87 1992ISBN: 0195101065
No good deed : a story of medicine, murder accusations, and the debate over how we dieCall Number: R726.8 .C632 2010x c.2ISBN: 006172176X
The philosophy and practice of medicine and bioethics : a naturalistic-humanistic approachCall Number: R723 .M354 2011xISBN: 9048188660
