Topic Overviews
When conducting research, it is helpful to know the history and background of topics and themes. For example, understanding the historical background of racism in politics, education, health care, etc., is necessary to understand where America is today.
Historical Context Topics:
- The Tuskegee Experiment and its Legacy
- The Development of Informed Consent
Science and Society Topics:
- HeLa Cells and the Commercialization of Science
- Bioethics and Issues of Privacy
Background Information
Subject encyclopedias and books that provide historical or background information are excellent sources that provide information about a problem and identify people, organizations, and efforts that are involved in resolving the conflicts and controversies. Reference sources can also help you narrow your topic and discover keywords for further searching.
Below are sources that will provide you with knowledgeable and reliable information on the topics noted above.
Culturing Life by Publication Date: 2007How did cells make the journey, one we take so much for granted, from their origin in living bodies to something that can be grown and manipulated on artificial media in the laboratory, a substantial biomass living outside a human body, plant, or animal? This is the question at the heart of this text.
To Raise up the Man Farthest Down: Tuskegee university's Advancements in Human Health, 1881-1987 by Publication Date: 2018In To Raise Up the Man Farthest Down, Dana R. Chandler and Edith Powell document Tuskegee University's medical and public health history with rich archival data and never-before-published photographs. Chandler and Powell especially highlight the important but largely unsung role that Tuskegee University researchers played in the eradication of polio, and they add new dimension and context to the fascinating story of the HeLa cell line that has been brought to the public's attention by popular media.
Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics by Publication Date: 2018For decades, the field of bioethics has shaped the way we think about ethical problems in science, technology, and medicine. But its traditional emphasis on individual interests such as doctor-patient relationships, informed consent, and personal autonomy is minimally helpful in confronting the social and political challenges posed by new human biotechnologies such as assisted reproduction, human genetic modification, and DNA forensics.
Privacy Rights in the Digital Age by Call Number: REF KF 1263 .C65 P75 2015Publication Date: 2016This new encyclopedia discusses the practical, political, psychological, and philosophical challenges we face as technological advances have changed the landscape of traditional notions of privacy.
Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice, 2nd ed. by Publication Date: 2001Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source of much concern to clinicians. Drawing on a diverse set of backgrounds and two decades of research in clinical settings, the authors - a lawyer, a physician, a social scientist, and a philosopher - help clinicians understand and cope with their legal obligations and show how the proper handling of informed consent can improve, rather than impede, patient care.
Informed Consent: Procedures, Ethics and Best Practices by Publication Date: 2016In this book, the absence of a clear, general formulation is the problem chapter one seeks to solve by presenting a theory of informed consent. . Chapter five examines informed consent issues in the context of a community collaborative model of service delivery that uses a public health approach. Chapter six provides insight into a novel way to overcome some of these risks when seeking and obtaining informed consent in clinical trials and research. The final chapter evaluates the effect of informed consent format on preoperative anxiety of patients.
Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The Real Story and Beyond by Call Number: R 853 .H8 G73 2013Publication Date: 1998The attorney for the men involved describes the infamous medical experiment.
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and its legacy by Publication Date: 2009The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound metaphor for medical racism, government malfeasance, and physician arrogance. Susan M. Reverby's Examining Tuskegee is a comprehensive analysis of the notorious study of untreated syphilis among African American men, who were told by U.S. Public Health Service doctors that they were being treated, not just watched, for their late-stage syphilis.
