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xiii, 210 pages ; 24 cm |
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Introduction : Is America going to hell? -- pt. 1. General interest -- Duty versus conscience -- The ethics of brain imaging -- Has direct-to-consumer advertising gone too far? -- Ethical lessons from the flu bug -- The Colonel kicks the habit -- Shame on Jeb Bush -- Stark raving madness -- pt. 2. End of life -- Million Dollar Baby -- Physician-assisted suicide in Oregon -- Lessons from Terri Schiavo -- pt. 3. Engineering ourselves -- Is cosmetic surgery always vain? -- Face-off over gene foods -- Heightened questions about growth hormone -- Brain enhancement -- Seasonale : medicine for the sake of convenience? -- Raffy and the trouble with steroids -- When steroids and politics mix -- ANDi the fluorescent money -- pt. 4. Engineering plants, microbes, and animals -- Are genetically modified foods fit for a dog? -- Miss Cleo, meet "CC," the Kitty Clone -- Whipping up the Avian flu -- Should scientists create new life? -- Smart mice, not-so-smart people -- pt. 5. Experimentation ethics -- Testing biological and chemical weapons : any volunteers? -- Lawsuits are not the answer -- Commercial concerns should take a backseat to public awareness -- Research ban at Hopkins a sign of ethical crisis -- Research on the newly dead -- Will we ever debunk our mythology about human subjects research? -- |
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pt. 6. Health reform -- Cause célèbree -- Cheap drugs are not the answer to the African AIDS crisis - better infrastructure is -- Humility or hubris? -- Fiddling while the health system burns -- No coverage for kids a moral failure -- New world calls for new health care -- Our dying health care system -- The moral tragedy of chronic illness -- pt. 7. Human cloning and stem cell research -- Cloning : separating the science from the fiction -- Cloning flicks offer a moral lesson -- Embryonic cloning feat points to problems with Bush policy -- Korean cloning fraud -- Media bungled clone claim coverage -- Chutzpah -- The end of the embyronic stem cell debate -- pt. 8. Mapping ourselves -- Ethics first, then genetics -- His genes, our genome -- Let's keep our genome in perspective -- "Darwin vindicated!" -- Ready for the genomic age? -- Unethical policies undermine value of genetic testing -- Who needs Bill Gates? -- |
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pt. 9. Reproduction -- Let's talk about sex -- Model eggs -- Soldier's sperm offers biological insurance policy -- Talking reproductive responsibility -- Test tube babies versus clones -- The problem with "embryo adoption" -- Are you ever too old to have a baby? -- pt. 10. The state of science in the United States -- Hullabaloo over MMR risk misses the point -- If science becomes politicized, where do we go for truth? -- Is biomedical research too dangerous to pursue? -- Misusing the Nazi analogy -- How the President's Council on Bioethics lost its credibility -- Pray it ain't so -- Who wins when religion squares off against science? -- Why are these nuts testifying? -- pt. 11. Donation and transplantation of organs -- About face -- Restricting blood donations or mad cow the deadlier threat? -- Jumping the line -- www.matchingdonors.com -- Misguided effort to ease the organ shortage -- No excuse for blood donor bias -- Sperm transplants should spur debate -- The return fetal tissue transplants -- Afterword: What is bioethics? -- About the author. |
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Introduction: Is America going to hell? -- General interest -- End of life -- Engineering ourselves -- Engineering plants, microbes, and animals -- Experimentation ethics -- Health reform -- Human cloning and stem cell research -- Mapping ourselves -- Reproduction -- The state of science in the United States -- Donation and transplantation of organs -- Afterword: What is bioethics? |
| Subject |
Medical ethics.
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Medical ethics. |
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Bioethical Issues. |
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Popular Work.
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| Subject |
Éthique médicale. |
| ISBN |
0742541711 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780742541719 cloth alkaline paper |
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