Dear Lisa and Felicia,

this is quite an achievement and nobody here is under any delusions as to the
difficulty in pulling this off.

I think this calls for some celebration! Therefore I have posted a link to the
book, to extracts which are available on line, and to the review and your
respective websites on my Women's Health and Studies page:
http://myweb.dal.ca/mgoodyea/womenshealth.htm

And I also added a human face :)

Michael

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> Way to go, Lisa!!!
>
> Rosie
>
>
> On 3/30/08 6:21 PM, "Wendy Rogers" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear Lisa,
>> Fantastic news ­ well done. I¹m about to order my copy.
>>
>> (Please bring some copies of the review and flyers for the book to 
>> Croatia if
>> you can, so that we can showcase you there.)
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Wendy
>>
>> Wendy A Rogers
>> Associate Professor, Medical Ethics and Health Law
>> Department of Medical Education
>> Flinders University
>> GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001
>> Tel: 08 8204 3132
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 10:25 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: one of ours in JAMA
>>
>>
>> Dear Fabsters,
>>
>> Our own Lisa Eckenweiler is probably too modest to tell you herself that her
>> recent collection The Ethics of Bioethics: Mapping the Moral 
>> Landscape, edited
>> with Felilcia G. Cohn, has received an outstanding review in the March 19
>> issue of JAMA.
>>
>> Congratulations Lisa!
>>
>> Best, Mary
>> THE ETHICS OF BIOETHICS: MAPPING THE MORAL LANDSCAPE
>>
>> Edited by Lisa A. Eckenwiler and Felicia G. Cohn
>>
>> 352 pp, $50.25
>>
>> Baltimore, MD, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
>>
>> ISBN-13 978-0-8018-8612-6
>>
>> WITHOUT QUESTION, THE ETHICS OF BIOETHICS IS A MUST-READ
>>
>> for all persons involvedwith bioethics.Thiswell-written,wellorganized
>>
>> paperback seeks to analyze themany facets of ethics
>>
>> in the field of bioethics. Several authors discuss the issue
>>
>> of a code of ethics for bioethics, provide the reader with insight
>>
>> and background on the debate, and explain the rationale
>>
>> that has led to a lack of any such code. Furthermore, authors
>>
>> discuss many important considerations for those who
>>
>> ³practice bioethics² orwho lead institutions that employ bioethicists.
>>
>> Topics range fromthe obligations of hospital-based
>>
>> clinical ethics consultants and those of research ethics consultants
>>
>> employed by private industry to issues of mentorship
>>
>> and obligations to society. The chapters provide a clear
>>
>> background to help the reader understand the current status
>>
>> of the field, wherein the authors criticize bioethicists, institutions,
>>
>> and organizations when appropriate.
>>
>> Perhaps what makes this volume so important and unusual
>>
>> is the evenhandedness of the text. Readers are given
>>
>> BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS
>>
>> 1370 JAMA, March 19, 2008‹Vol 299, No. 11 (Reprinted) ©2008 American Medical
>> Association. All rights reserved.
>>
>> Downloaded from www.jama.com at Johns Hopkins University, on March 25, 2008
>>
>> point-counterpoint arguments for several key concepts. Tris
>>
>> Engelhardt provides an eloquent argument as to why bioethics
>>
>> should not, and indeed cannot, adopt a uniformcode
>>
>> of ethics, while in the following chapter Mary Faith Marshall
>>
>> demonstrates why developing and implementing such
>>
>> a code is essential. Similarly, Alta Charo provides a scathing
>>
>> analysis of the current rise of neoconservative ethics,
>>
>> while Griffin Trotter discusses his perspectives and concerns
>>
>> regarding various academic bioethicists. It is this backand-
>>
>> forth between experts that makes The Ethics of Bioethics
>>
>> particularly fascinating and informative.
>>
>> To Eckenwiler and Cohn¹s credit, they have managed to
>>
>> compile chapters written by preeminent leaders in the field.
>>
>> Often, when one amasses such an esteemed assembly of experts,
>>
>> the outcome leaves one feeling that many have based
>>
>> their contribution on their prestige rather than their contribution
>>
>> to the text. I commend the editors and the authors
>>
>> of all chapters because they clearly have delved deeply
>>
>> into their own experiences and thoughts and have produced
>>
>> chapters rich in content and analysis. Indeed, I found
>>
>> that I was simply unable to put this book down. No other
>>
>> work has so centrally confronted the issues of ethics in the
>>
>> field of bioethics, and clearly the field is in need of such a
>>
>> critical assessment. Readers are unlikely to findmany ³here
>>
>> iswhat you should do² answers; rather, likemost good clinical
>>
>> ethics consultations, one will walk away from the experience
>>
>> with greater insight, recommendations on how one
>>
>> might proceed, and likely more questions than when one
>>
>> began. The Ethics of Bioethics should be at the top of the reading
>>
>> list for everyone currently training in bioethics, involvedwith
>>
>> clinical and/or research ethics consultation, pursuing
>>
>> an academic career in bioethics, or running institutions
>>
>> employing bioethicists, as well as others interested in this
>>
>> growing and fascinating field.
>>
>> Alexander A. Kon, MD
>>
>> Department of Pediatrics and Bioethics
>>
>> University of California, Davis
>>
>> Sacramento
>>
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