Publications

Bioethics in the News

The Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences has long been committed to encouraging informed, respectful, and lively public conversations about the ethical challenges facing the practice of medicine and the health care system – challenges that affect all of us as patients and citizens.

Our Bioethics in the News Blog aims to start us talking about difficult bioethics and health policy issues raised by cases and events reported in the media. The format is simple. At least once a month, Center for Ethics faculty or our colleagues elsewhere will comment on a recent news item they found of interest. You are invited to respond to their commentaries; our faculty will then continue to participate in the conversation for two weeks following their posting. With your participation, we hope to create discussions rich with insights from diverse perspectives. Please join us.

To get notices of new blog postings, follow us on Twitter @msubioethics, or follow this link to all posts for our Bioethics in the News blog.

Books & Chapters

Below are a few recent major publications from faculty in the Center for Ethics. For a more extensive list and further descriptions, visit the MSU Bioethics Blog, which has sections listing recent books, book chapters, and articles by Center faculty.

Liberty and the Individual Mandate

Leonard M Fleck

In: Debates on US Health Care
Kronenfeld JJ, Parmet WE, Zezza MA, editors

Available from Sage Publications, Amazon, Barnes & Noble

Methods in Medical Ethics: Critical Perspectives

Tom Tomlinson

Oxford University Press, USA
Available from Oxford University Press, Barnes & Noble

Read an editorial on this book on the Clinical Ethics journal website by Soren Holm.

Just Genetics: Ethical Challenges of Personalized Medicine

Leonard Fleck

In: Medicine and Social Justice, Second Edition
Rhodes R, Battin M, Silvers A, editors

Available from Oxford University Press, Amazon

Choosing Surgical Birth: Desire and the Nature of Bioethical Advice

De Vries RG, Low LK, Elizabeth Bogdan-Lovis

In: Readings in Health Care Ethics, Second Edition
Gedge EB, Waluchow WB, editors

Available from Broadview Press, Amazon

“Living Cadavers” in Bangladesh: Bioviolence in the Human Organ Bazaar

Monir Moniruzzaman

Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Volume 26, Issue 1; pp 69-91

Available here through the MSU Library

Medical Humanities Report

The Center for Ethics published the Medical Humanities Report, a newsletter of bioethics articles by Center faculty and colleagues, beginning in Winter of 1979 through Spring of 2011. An archive of issues going back to Fall of 1996 is available here.