"First published as volume 28, no. 6 of Sociology of health and illness"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social science and bioethics: the way forward / Raymond de Vries ... [et al.] -- Co-ordinating "ethical" clinical trials: the role of research coordinators in the contract research industry / Jill A. Fisher -- The many meanings of care in clinical research / Michele M. Easter ... [et al.] -- The field worker's fields: ethics, ethnography, and medical sociology / Renée R. Anspach and Nissim Mizrachi -- Ethical boundary-work in the embryonic stem cell laboratory / Steven P. Wainwright ... [et al.] -- Gift not commodity? lay people deliberating social sex selection / Jackie Leach Scully, Tom Shakespeare, and Sarah Banks -- It's money that matters: the financial context of ethical decision-making in modern biomedicine / Adam M. Hedgecoe --

The power of ethics: a case study from Sweden on the social life of moral concerns in policy processes / Klaus Hoeyer -- Explaining the emergence of euthanasia law in the Netherlands: how the sociology of law can help the sociology of bioethics / Heleen Weyers -- From biopolitics to bioethics: church, state, medicine, and assisted reproductive technology in Ireland / Orla McDonnell and Jill Allison -- Taking sociology seriously: a new approach to the bioethical problems of infectious disease / Mark Tausig ... [et al.] -- Biobanks, bioethics and concepts of donated blood in the UK / Helen Busby -- Embodiment and ethics: constructing medicine's two bodies / David Armstrong.