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According to Wikipedia, Renée Claire Fox was an American sociologist. She was a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College in 1949, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests – sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics – involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe , in Central Africa , and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the United States, and taught in a number of universities abroad.

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The evolution of medical uncertainty. (1980) (270)
Medical Uncertainty Revisited (2000) (253)
The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis (1975) (230)
Experiment Perilous: Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown (1974) (168)
The sociology of medicine : a participant observer's view (1989) (162)
The Evolution of American Bioethics: A Sociological Perspective (1990) (141)
Cultural competence and the culture of medicine. (2005) (108)
The courage to fail (1978) (99)
Religious Movements in Central Africa: A Theoretical Study (1976) (94)
"An Ignoble Form of Cannibalism": Reflections on the Pittsburgh Protocol for Procuring Organs from Non-Heart-Beating Cadavers (1993) (86)
The medicalization and demedicalization of American society. (1977) (84)
Medical humanitarianism and human rights: reflections on doctors without borders and doctors of the world. (1995) (79)
The culture of caring: AIDS and the nursing profession. (1990) (61)
Essays in Medical Sociology. (1981) (59)
The "Gift of Life" and Its Reciprocation (1972) (55)
Examining American bioethics: its problems and prospects. (2005) (54)
Essays in Medical Sociology: Journeys into the Field (1979) (54)
“The Second Independence”: a Case Study of the Kwilu Rebellion in the Congo (1965) (48)
Medical uncertainty and the autopsy: occult benefits for students. (1990) (46)
Organ transplantation : meanings and realities (1996) (43)
Role strains of a health care team in a poverty community. The Columbia Point experience. (1972) (41)
Observations and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker (2004) (39)
Caregiver and Elder Experiences of Cambodian, Vietnamese, Soviet Jewish, and Ukrainian Refugees (2001) (38)
The Presence and Influence of Religion in American Bioethics (2001) (36)
The sociology of medicine (1989) (36)
Advanced Medical Technology-Social and Ethical Implications (1976) (36)
Leaving the field. (1992) (35)
They call it "patient selection" in Khayelitsha: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières-South Africa in enrolling patients to receive antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS. (2006) (30)
After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century (2005) (29)
Illness, Therapy and the Modern Urban American Family (2010) (29)
Guest Editorial: Ignoring the Social and Cultural Context of Bioethics Is Unacceptable (2010) (26)
Reflections and opportunities in the sociology of medicine. (1985) (26)
More than bioethics. (1996) (23)
The Daedalus effect: changes in ethical questions relating to hepatitis B virus. (1985) (23)
Ethical and existential developments in contemporaneous American medicine: their implications for culture and society. (1974) (22)
"Nationals" and "expatriates": challenges of fulfilling "sans frontières" ("without borders") ideals in international humanitarian action. (2008) (22)
Experiment Perilous: Forty-Five Years As a Participant Observer of Patient-Oriented Clinical Research (2015) (21)
A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION AND HEMODIALYSIS * (1970) (21)
Comprar Observing Bioethics | Renée C Fox | 9780195365559 | Oxford University Press (2008) (21)
Trends in medical education research: past, present, and future. (1974) (19)
Is medical education asking too much of bioethics? (1999) (19)
Doctors Without Borders: Humanitarian Quests, Impossible Dreams of Médecins Sans Frontières (2014) (15)
The Sting of Death in American Society (1981) (15)
Time to heal medical education? (1999) (14)
Why we wrote… Observing Bioethics (2008) (12)
Personhood, medicine, and American Society. (1983) (11)
Perish and Publish: Non-Heart-Beating Organ Donation and Unduly Iterative Ethical Review (1995) (10)
Introduction: bioethics and beyond. (1999) (9)
Stalking Sociologists: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI Surveillance of American Sociology (2003) (9)
The bioethics that I would like to see (2008) (9)
Critical care at Tianjin's First Central Hospital and the fourth modernization. (1982) (9)
Ethical and existential developments in contemporaneous American medicine: their implications for culture and society. (1974) (8)
Through the lenses of biology and sociology : Organ replacement (2005) (8)
Regulated commercialism of vital organ donation: a necessity? Con. (1993) (8)
Remembering the "Golden Years" of Patient-Oriented Clinical Research: a collective conversation (2004) (8)
Medical Scientists in a Château: The traditional social structure creates problems for medical research and researchers in Belgium (1962) (8)
The emerging physician : a sociological approach to the development of a Congolese medical profession (1968) (8)
Assessing the Artificial Heart: The Clinical Moratorium Revisited (1986) (7)
In the Belgian Chateau: The Spirit and Culture of a European Society in an Age of Change (1994) (7)
Is medical education asking too much of bioethics? Teaching the "nonbiomedical" aspects of medicine: the perennial pattern. (1999) (5)
The Sociology of Modern Medical Research (1976) (4)
Thinking Socially and Culturally in Bioethics (2008) (4)
Robert Browning's Necropoetics (2011) (4)
Trial-and-error ethics: experimenting with non-heartbeating cadaver organ donation. (1996) (4)
In the Field: A Sociologist's Journey (2010) (3)
Remembering the "Golden Years" o f P atient-Oriented Clinical Research (2004) (3)
Lessons from the heart: Ethical reflections on the clinical trials of the Jarvik-7 (1997) (3)
The Presence and Influence of Religion in (2001) (3)
Bioethics, Our Crowd, and Ideology (1996) (2)
Standish O'Grady's Cuculain: A critical edition (2016) (2)
Regulated commercialism of vital organ donation: a necessity? Con. (1993) (2)
Medical uncertainty. An interview with Renée C. Fox. (1987) (2)
The Puzzle Man: Self‐Portrait of a Transplant Pioneer (1993) (2)
Khayelitsha Journal (2005) (2)
Experiment Perilous (2020) (2)
The Institute of Medicine's workshop and report on xenotransplantation: a participant observer's account. (1996) (1)
Moving Bioethics Toward Its Better Self: a sociologist’s perspective (2016) (1)
Bioethics Circles the Globe (2008) (1)
Heroic Action and Its Discontents: Safe Horizon’s Response to 9/11 (2009) (1)
“Hello, Dolly” Bioethics in the Media (2008) (1)
Chronicle of a Cadaver Transplant (1973) (1)
The Revivalist Museum:: Yeats and the Reanimation of History (2014) (1)
Doctors without borders (2015) (1)
THE CULTURAL SHAPING OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (2008) (1)
Gift Exchange and Gatekeeping (2017) (1)
Striving To Do Good: Well-Springs, Realities, and Paradoxes of Medical Humanitarian Work (2012) (1)
Physicians on the Drug Industry Side of the Prescription Blank: Their Dual Commitment to Medical Science and Business (1961) (1)
The Case of the Artificial Heart (2017) (0)
How the Physicians of the Metabolic Group Came to Terms With Their Problems and Stresses (2020) (0)
H e Knows That Machine (2004) (0)
Exploring the Moral and Spiritual Dimensions of Society and Medicine (2017) (0)
Graduate School: The Harvard Department of Social Relations (2017) (0)
The Societal Meaning of The Courage to Fail (2017) (0)
THE MEDIEVAL FEMALE MYSTICS' RESPONSES TO THE VIRGIN MARY (2013) (0)
Celebrating Bioethics and Bioethicists (2008) (0)
Specialists in Uncertainty: The Problem of Rejection (2017) (0)
The Heart Transplant Moratorium (2017) (0)
The Democratization of Dialysis: Public Law 92-603 (2017) (0)
An experimental integrated curriculum for first-year medical students. (1972) (0)
Organ Transplantation as Gift Exchange (2017) (0)
The Patients of Ward F-Second: Some of Their Problems and Stresses (2020) (0)
Michael Longley’s Early Epitaphs (2009) (0)
Deciphering the Surgeons’ Stories (2015) (0)
The Coming of Bioethicists (2008) (0)
The View from Khayelitsha and La Mancha (2008) (0)
“Made in the U.S.A.”: American Features in the Rise and Fall of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart (2017) (0)
Project on Bioethics in American Society Interview with Arthur Caplan #2 (1997) (0)
Subject Index (1966) (0)
Project on Bioethics in American Society Interview with James F. Childress (1999) (0)
Transplantation in the 1970s: A Revised Paradigm of Therapeutic Innovation (2017) (0)
Who Shall Guard the Guardians (2017) (0)
Alterations in the Theme of the Gift (2017) (0)
Museum Trouble: Edwardian Fiction and the Emergence of Modernism by Ruth Hoberman (review) (2014) (0)
A Disconcerting Pact with Gravity: Nineteenth-Century Acrobats and the Failure of Transcendence (2016) (0)
The Coming of the Culture Wars to American Bioethics (2008) (0)
Ward F-Second, The Metabolic Group, and the Sociologist (2020) (0)
Transplantation and the Medical Commons (2017) (0)
Introduction to the Metabolic Research Group and Ward F-Second (2020) (0)
Honoring Arthur L. Caplan (1999) (0)
The Experiment-Therapy Dilemma (2017) (0)
Introduction : Irish Studies from austerity to pandemic (2020) (0)
Epilogue: Forty-Five Years as a Participant Observer of Patient-Oriented Clinical Research (2020) (0)
Patient Selection and the Right to Die: Problems Facing Seattle’s Kidney Center (2017) (0)
Studying Bioethics in France (2008) (0)
Desperate Appliance: A Short History of the Jarvik-7 Artificial Heart (2017) (0)
The “Team of Two”: Observing Bioethics (2008) (0)
Winner of the Dwight J. Ingle Memorial Writers Award (2015) (0)
Three F-Seconders: Paul O’Brian, Leo Angelico, and Jackie Foote (2020) (0)
Choices on Our Conscience (2008) (0)
Standish O'Grady's Cuculain (2016) (0)
Rebellion and Revolution (1982) (0)
The Development of Bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (2008) (0)
Introduction to the 1974 Edition (2020) (0)
The Physician-Investigator and His Patients (2017) (0)
Is there a new medical student? (1978) (0)
Project on Bioethics in American Society Interview with John Fletcher (1999) (0)
Medical scientists in a Chateau. (1962) (0)
How the Patients of Ward F-Second Came to Terms With Their Problems and Stresses (2020) (0)
The Coming of Bioethics (2008) (0)
Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation in the United States (2008) (0)
Reminiscences of Observing Participants (2008) (0)
Of Wonder Drugs, the Transplant “Boom,” and Moratoria (2017) (0)
and Reflections of a Perpetual Fieldworker (2004) (0)
General Significance of “Experiment Perilous” (2020) (0)
“To Give Life”: A Study of Seattle’s Hemodialysis Program (2017) (0)
Africa: Léopoldville, Kisantu, and Usumbura (2017) (0)
The Transplant Surgeon, the Sociologist, and the Historian: A Conversation with Thomas E. Starzl (2017) (0)
The Physicians of the Metabolic Group: Some of Their Problems and Stresses (2020) (0)
Summer Seminars for College Teachers (1975): Conference Proceeding 11 (1975) (0)

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