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• 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)
• 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)

• The Arctic Aeromedical Laboratory's Thyroid Function Study: A Radiological Risk and Ethical Analysis (1996), by National Research Council Committee on Evaluation of 1950s Air Force Human Health Testing in Alaska Using Radioactive Iodine131 (page images with commentary at NAP)

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

• Raisons de l'Inoculation Pour la Petite Vérole: Par Lesquelles on Fait Voir Que Cette Méthode N'est Aucunement Contraire à la Religion & à la Raison: Mais un Devoir Qu'exigent l'Une & l'Autre (in French; 1768) (page images at NIH)

• 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)

• The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide (1986), by Robert Jay Lifton (HTML with commentary at phdn.org)

• 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)

• Negotiating Bioethics: The Governance of UNESCO's Bioethics Programme (London and New York: Routledge, c2013), by Adèle Langlois
  • PDF with commentary at tandfebooks.com
  • HTML and PDF with commentary at oapen.org

• Cole's Medical Practice in New Zealand (12th edition; Wellington: Medical Council of New Zealand, 2013), ed. by Ian St. George, contrib. by David Cole (multiple formats in New Zealand)

• 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)

• Ethical Considerations in the Business Aspects of Health Care (c1995), by Woodstock Theological Center Seminar in Business Ethics (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• 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)

• Monsieur Belloste's Hospital Surgeon, as Far as It Treats of The Gout, Rheumatism, Cholick, Dropsy, Stone, Gravel, and Venereal Complaints: To Which are Added Dr. Sydenham's Observations on The Gout; With Proper Notes on Each (London: Printed by J. Hughs, 1737) (page images at NIH)

• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Health Data in the Information Age: Use, Disclosure, and Privacy (1994), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Protecting Privacy in Computerized Medical Information (OTA-TCT-576; 1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patient's Guide to HIPAA: How to Use the Law to Guard Your Health Privacy (version 2.0; Lake Oswego, OR: World Privacy Forum, c2019), by Robert Gellman, contrib. by Pam Dixon (HTML with commentary at worldprivacyforum.org)
• For the Record: Protecting Electronic Health Information, by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (HTML and page images at NAP)

• By Honor Bound: State and Society in Early Modern Russia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1999), by Nancy Shields Kollmann
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Dying for Care: Hospice Care or Euthanasia (electronic edition, 1995), by Harry Van Bommel (HTML with commentary at carelibrary.com)

• Of Life and Death: Report of the Special Senate Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, by Canada Parliament Special Committee on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide (HTML in Canada)

• When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context, by New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (HTML at state.ny.us)

• Quality of Health Care; Human Experimentation, 1973: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-Third Congress, First Session (4 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1973), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)

• Resisting 12-Step Coercion: How to Fight Forced Participation in AA, NA, or 12-Step Treatment (Tucson, AZ: See Sharp Press, 2000), by Stanton Peele (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Unnecessary Hysterectomies, the Second Most Common Major Surgery in the United States: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Aging of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1993), by United States Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)

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