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Michigan State University's Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences (CEHLS) is committed to supporting reflective practice in health care and in science, by bringing to these fields the resources of ethics and the humanities. We do this through teaching, writing, public speaking, conducting research and working in many other ways with students, practitioners, and the general public. |
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Just Caring:
Health Care Rationing and Democratic Deliberation
by Leonard M. Fleck
What does it mean to be a "just" and "caring" society when we have only limited resources to meet unlimited health care needs? Do we believe that all lives are of equal value? Is human life priceless? Should a "just" and "caring" society refuse to put limits on health care spending?
Available from Oxford University Press.
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Just Love: Transforming Civic Virtue
by Ann Mongoven
Once upon a time, civic virtue described an ethic of political involvement for all citizens. As American democracy evolved, the public and private spheres separated. Dr. Mongoven argues for a transformed civic virtue: passionate care for fellow citizens and lets ordinary heroes suggest the path toward civic renewal.
Available July 2009 from Indiana University Press.
Health agencies launched a system 40 years ago to identify babies at risk. Now there are millions of blood samples in files that researchers want to access, raising public concern. Read Tom Tomlinson's comments in Science Gold Mine, Ethical Minefield by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel. Science 10 April 2009: 166-168.
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