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• Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Robert Baker (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• Making Modern Medical Ethics: How African Americans, Anti-Nazis, Bureaucrats, Feminists, Veterans, and Whistleblowing Moralists Created Bioethics (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2024), by Robert Baker (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)

• The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled (Sydney: UTS ePress, c2019), by Michael D. Robertson, Astrid Ley, and Edwina Light (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled (Sydney: UTS ePress, c2019), by Michael D. Robertson, Astrid Ley, and Edwina Light (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2005), by Michael Bryant (PDF at upcolorado.com)

• Discovering Addiction: The Science and Politics of Substance Abuse Research (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Nancy D. Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)

• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c2017), by Deirdre Benia Cooper Owens (PDF at OAPEN)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Chance Encounters: A Bioethics for a Damaged Planet (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Kristien Hens (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by James David Velleman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Human Dignity and Bioethics: Essays Commissioned by the President's Council on Bioethics (2008), ed. by Adam Schulman and Thomas W. Merrill (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• Rethinking Health Care Ethics (Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, 2018), by Stephen R. Scher and Kasia Kozlowska (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and the Making of Intrinsic Worth (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016), by Gaymon Bennett (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine (1995), ed. by Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Shaping the Future: Biology and Human Values (1989), by Steve Olson (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Monitoring Stem Cell Research (2004), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care And Human Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Heyd (HTML at UC Press)
• Animals, Nature, and Albert Schweitzer, by Albert Schweitzer, ed. by Ann Cottrell Free, illust. by Erica Anderson (illustrated HTML at awionline.org)

• Biomedical Ethics in U.S. Public Policy (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (London and New York: Routledge, c2013), by Adèle Langlois
  • multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (London and New York: Routledge, c2013), by Adèle Langlois
  • multiple formats with commentary at Taylor and Francis
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• BMC Medical Ethics (2000-) (full serial archives)
• The Linacre Quarterly (partial serial archives)

• Clinical and Translational Science (full serial archives)

• Medico-Moral Problems (third printing; St. Louis: Catholic Hospital Association of the United States and Canada, 1961), by Gerald Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)

• Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide (Hanover, NH, and London: Brandeis University Press, c2002), by Miryam Z. Wahrman (page images and PDF at Brandeis)

• Alternative Sources of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells: A White Paper (2005), by President's Council on Bioethics (U.S.) (HTML and PDF at Georgetown)
• Stem Cells: Scientific Progress and Future Research Directions (2001), by National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (PDF files at nih.gov)

• Biomedical Ethics in U.S. Public Policy (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report (1995), by United States Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at National Security Archive
• Intensive Care Units (ICUs): Clinical Outcomes, Costs, and Decisionmaking (Washington: Office of Technology Assessment, 1984), by Robert A. Berenson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton
• Taking a Stand on Health Care, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments: Final Report (1995), by United States Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • text at National Security Archive
• Adverse Reactions to HIV Vaccines: Medical, Ethical, and Legal Issues (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Essays of a Biologist (second edition; London: Chatto and Windus, 1923), by Julian Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bioethics and the Holocaust: A Comprehensive Study in How the Holocaust Continues to Shape the Ethics of Health, Medicine and Human Rights (International Library of Bioethics v96; Cham: Springer, c2022), ed. by Stacy Gallin and Ira Bedzow (PD with commentary at OAPEN)
• Rethinking Health Care Ethics (Singapore: Palgrave Pivot, 2018), by Stephen R. Scher and Kasia Kozlowska (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)
• Society's Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine (1995), ed. by Ruth Ellen Bulger, Elizabeth Meyer Bobby, and Harvey V. Fineberg (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by David Heyd (HTML at UC Press)
• Just Doctoring: Medical Ethics in the Liberal State (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Troyen A. Brennan (HTML at UC Press)
• Professional Ethics and Primary Care Medicine: Beyond Dilemmas and Decorum (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1986), by Harmon L. Smith and Larry R. Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Price: Essays on Birth and Death (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), by James David Velleman (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Handbook for Rural Health Care Ethics: A Practical Guide for Professionals (Lebanon, NH: Dartmouth College Press, 2009), ed. by William A. Nelson (PDF with commentary at Dartmouth)
• Responsible Research: A Systems Approach to Protecting Research Participants (2003), ed. by Daniel D. Federman, Kathi E. Hanna, and Laura Lyman Rodriguez (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Military Medical Ethics (2 volumes from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 2003), ed. by Thomas E. Beam and Linette R. Sparacino
  • Volume 1: PDF files at Borden Institute
  • Volume 2: PDF files at Borden Institute
• COVID-19 and World Order: The Future of Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2020), ed. by Hal Brands and Francis J. Gavin (HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE)
• Moral Principles and Medical Practice: The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence (New York et al.: Benziger Bros., ca. 1897), by Charles Coppens (Gutenberg text)
• Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beyond Complementary Medicine: Legal and Ethical Perspectives on Health Care And Human Evolution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Works: Literary, Moral, Philosophical and Medical (new edition, 4 volumes, with title pages varying somewhat between volumes and copies; London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1807), by Thomas Percival, ed. by Edward Percival (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.