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Obras de Renee C. Fox

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Conocimiento común

Otros nombres
Fox, Renee Claire
Fecha de nacimiento
1928-02-15
Fecha de fallecimiento
2020-09-23
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
New York, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Lugares de residencia
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Educación
Smith College (summa cum laude)
Radcliffe College
Harvard University
Ocupaciones
medical sociologist
Bioethicist
professor
author
Premios y honores
E. Harris Harbison Gifted Teaching Award (Danforth Foundation)
Award for Teaching (Lindback Foundation)
Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology (American Sociological Association)
Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II (bestowed by Belgium)
Lifetime Achievement Award (American Society for Bioethics and Humanities)
Biografía breve
Renée C. Fox was born to a Jewish-American family in New York City. She graduated from 8th grade at the age of 12 and attended Julia Richman High School, graduating at age 16. She then enrolled in Smith College in Massachusetts and graduated summa cum laude in 1949. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Radcliffe College in 1954. Renée’s major teaching and research interests became the sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics. She took part in observation-based field studies in Europe, Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and in China, as well as in the USA. She became a renowned medical sociologist and bioethicist. She lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools in the USA and taught in a number of universities abroad. At the University of Pennsylvania, she held joint appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, and in the School of Nursing, and an interdisciplinary chair as the Annenberg Professor of the Social Sciences. In 1992, she decided to study Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) and the dilemmas the organization and its members and staff face while delivering medical care, bearing witness to violence, and advocacy. She was an elected member of numerous scientific organizations, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the American Sociological Association’s Leo G. Reeder Award for Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. In 1995, the Belgian Government named her Chevalier of the Order of Leopold II. Her many acclaimed books examined such topics as attitude formation among medical students, training for uncertainty, organ transplants, and bioethics.

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"It is refreshing to see a book that cuts through the perfervid media attention that often surrounds organ transplantation and challenges us to assess the practice more realistically. They discuss developments in immunosuppressive drugs, the psychological complexities of organs as gifts, the emergence of cluster or multiorgan transplants, the use of living related and nonrelated donors, and market efforts to increase organ supply. The strength of this part of the book is its moving reminder of the emotional complexity of the giving and receiving of organs and of how great technological promises are usually followed by dashed hopes, which they illustrate with the shifting fortunes of the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine, key to the 1980s increase in transplantation. In the end, Fox and Swazey provide valuable insights into the abuses that can occur in the process of technological innovation and identify many of the problematics of solid-organ transplantation." --Science

"Spare Parts offers a critical and compelling account of US medicine's ongoing fascination with organ replacement. In Spare Parts, Fax and Swazey deliver an engrossing account of medicine's preoccupation with organ replacement through a combination of insightful observations, lively argumentation, and moving personal accounts." -- AMA

"The authors' perspective highlights the personal and societal problems engendered by these immensely difficult, risky, costly procedures. This fascinating book has messages for all of us." --The Pharos

"A mine of data and background information. The authors go behind the scenes and show what is really happening behind the headlines. . . . A fascinating revelation." --Bioethics

"Fox and Swazey are the most knowledgeable and experienced analysts of the development of organ transplantation. They tell the inside sory of [the Jarvik-7 artificial heart] better than it has ever been told before." --Annals of Internal Medicine

"Provides a unique view of the world of transplantation. . . . a fascinating behind-the-scenes view." --Paul J. Brooks, American Journal of Hospital Pharmacy

"An encyclopedic source....This is an important book which warrants close study and thought by all those who share an in-depth or even cursory interest in the area of replacement therapy or organ transplantation." --vor Lensworth Livingston (Howard University), Social Science and Medicine, UK

"Can be profitably read by those looking for a concise source of details about recent trends in transplantation. Readers will find many useful references and quotations, as well as interview materials gathered by the authors that are not available elsewhere....A wealth of details and analysis." --Peter A. Ubel, MD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, The Journal of Clinical Ethics

"A historical, sociological, and moral essay on organ replacement in American society....But this is more than just an academic study. Through its carefully grounded analysis, [it] is a powerful indictment of recent trends in American biomedicine and American culture....Because of their unique access to the physicians and patients involved in these biomedical events, Fox and Swazey's study becomes a narrative-...whose interrelatedness to American culture is constantly reiterated. This style of presentation allows us to be drawn into the history, and into the stories of medical heroism and medical defeat. To the authors' great credit, they include many voices: doctors, patients, organ donors and recipients, families, and even poets....Spare Parts draws together a truly remarkable array of interdisciplinary information, sources, materials, and perspectives." --Gail Henderson, University of North Carolina at Chape Hill, American Journal of Sociology

"Excellent--very current information, easy, enjoyable to read."--Lydia D. Schafer, PhD
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14
Miembros
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Popularidad
#191,538
Valoración
½ 3.4
Reseñas
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ISBNs
41
Idiomas
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