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How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmas
Bioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical questions. Unlocking the debate behind the headlines, this book combines clear thinking with the very latest in science and…mehr
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How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmas
Bioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical questions. Unlocking the debate behind the headlines, this book combines clear thinking with the very latest in science and medicine, enabling readers to decide for themselves exactly what the scientific future should hold.
Bioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical questions. Unlocking the debate behind the headlines, this book combines clear thinking with the very latest in science and medicine, enabling readers to decide for themselves exactly what the scientific future should hold.
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- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 192
- Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 389g
- ISBN-13: 9780470659113
- ISBN-10: 0470659114
- Artikelnr.: 34546928
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 192
- Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 238mm x 161mm x 20mm
- Gewicht: 389g
- ISBN-13: 9780470659113
- ISBN-10: 0470659114
- Artikelnr.: 34546928
Dr. Glenn McGee is President of the Division of Research Ethics at Celltex Therapeutics, a stem cell research company in Houston, Texas. He held two successive endowed chairs in bioethics after serving for a decade as professor at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics. He is the founding editor of The American Journal of Bioethics and a leading authority on ethical issues in science and medicine. McGee has been a columnist for The Scientist, New York Times News Service, and MSNBC, and a frequent guest and commentator for National Public Radio, CNN, Fox, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Oprah, among others. McGee's books include The Perfect Baby (2nd edn., 2000), The Human Cloning Debate (with A. Caplan, 4th edn., 2004), and the best-selling Beyond Genetics: The User's Guide to DNA (2004). In addition, he has authored hundreds of scholarly papers about ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine.
Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Caution 1 Tip-Toe When Walking on the
Bleeding Edge 1 Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1 Case 2
Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3 Case 3 "Shroom" Science: Safe and
Effective? 4 Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6 Case 5 No More Periods, Period
8 Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10 Case 7 A Bloody Mess
11 Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14
Caution 2 Everybody Lies 17 Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific
Misconduct 17 Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18 Case 11
While You're Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21 Case 12 Study Subject or
Human Guinea Pig? 22 Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in
Clinical Trials 23 Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against
the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26 Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad
Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27 Caution 3 The Genome Isn't What It
Used to Be 34 Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34
Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36 Case 18 Wearing Genes from the
Gulf War 37 Caution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40 Case 19 Tomorrow's
Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40 Case 20 An Argument
against Human Cloning 42 Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or
Double the Love? 49 Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51 Case 23 Baby
Banking 53 Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy
54 Caution 5 Don't Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57 Case 25 "Nanoethics": The
ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57 Case 26 The Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea 62 Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64 Case 28 My Eye's on
You 66 Caution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It
Doesn't 69 Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed
Immunity to Common Sense? 69 Case 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun?
Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 71 Case 31 "Universal" Healthcare:
A Long Way Off 73 Case 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 75 Case 33 HIV
Testing Must Be Routine 76 Case 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster
78 Case 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 79
Case 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 82
Case 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 83
Caution 7 "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself " 86 Case 38 Medicine
Is Not a Steel Mill 86 Case 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck
Finding Them 87 Case 40 Medicine's Dirty Laundry 89 Case 41 Dr. Koop: Meet
Dr. Ethics 91 Case 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn't There an App for That? 94
Case 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 95 Caution 8 You Aren't Dead Until
Someone Tells You So 98 Case 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and
Recreation 98 Case 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 99
Case 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our
Ancestors Did 100 Case 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 102 Case 48 A Few
Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 104 Case 49 Living Wills Save
Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 106 Case 50 The Plural of
Anecdote Is Not Ambien 107 Caution 9 Eat Only Food for Thought 110 Case 51
Fat in America 110 Case 52 Breakfast for Thought 111 Case 53 Want Fish?
Ethics First, Please 113 Case 54 Dying for Food 115 Caution 10 Beware of
Ideologues and Demagogues 117 Case 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate
Whores, and Atheists 117 Case 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables)
120 Case 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 123 Case 58 Not in the Bush
Leagues Anymore 125 Case 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 128
Case 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the
California Sun 139 Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 146 A Hot and Cold
Running Genius 146 Science Must Slow Its Speed 148 Sources and Credits 150
Index 160
Bleeding Edge 1 Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1 Case 2
Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3 Case 3 "Shroom" Science: Safe and
Effective? 4 Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6 Case 5 No More Periods, Period
8 Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10 Case 7 A Bloody Mess
11 Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14
Caution 2 Everybody Lies 17 Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific
Misconduct 17 Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18 Case 11
While You're Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21 Case 12 Study Subject or
Human Guinea Pig? 22 Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in
Clinical Trials 23 Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against
the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26 Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad
Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27 Caution 3 The Genome Isn't What It
Used to Be 34 Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34
Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36 Case 18 Wearing Genes from the
Gulf War 37 Caution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40 Case 19 Tomorrow's
Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40 Case 20 An Argument
against Human Cloning 42 Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or
Double the Love? 49 Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51 Case 23 Baby
Banking 53 Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy
54 Caution 5 Don't Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57 Case 25 "Nanoethics": The
ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57 Case 26 The Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea 62 Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64 Case 28 My Eye's on
You 66 Caution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It
Doesn't 69 Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed
Immunity to Common Sense? 69 Case 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun?
Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 71 Case 31 "Universal" Healthcare:
A Long Way Off 73 Case 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 75 Case 33 HIV
Testing Must Be Routine 76 Case 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster
78 Case 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 79
Case 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 82
Case 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 83
Caution 7 "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself " 86 Case 38 Medicine
Is Not a Steel Mill 86 Case 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck
Finding Them 87 Case 40 Medicine's Dirty Laundry 89 Case 41 Dr. Koop: Meet
Dr. Ethics 91 Case 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn't There an App for That? 94
Case 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 95 Caution 8 You Aren't Dead Until
Someone Tells You So 98 Case 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and
Recreation 98 Case 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 99
Case 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our
Ancestors Did 100 Case 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 102 Case 48 A Few
Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 104 Case 49 Living Wills Save
Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 106 Case 50 The Plural of
Anecdote Is Not Ambien 107 Caution 9 Eat Only Food for Thought 110 Case 51
Fat in America 110 Case 52 Breakfast for Thought 111 Case 53 Want Fish?
Ethics First, Please 113 Case 54 Dying for Food 115 Caution 10 Beware of
Ideologues and Demagogues 117 Case 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate
Whores, and Atheists 117 Case 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables)
120 Case 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 123 Case 58 Not in the Bush
Leagues Anymore 125 Case 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 128
Case 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the
California Sun 139 Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 146 A Hot and Cold
Running Genius 146 Science Must Slow Its Speed 148 Sources and Credits 150
Index 160
Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Caution 1 Tip-Toe When Walking on the
Bleeding Edge 1 Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1 Case 2
Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3 Case 3 "Shroom" Science: Safe and
Effective? 4 Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6 Case 5 No More Periods, Period
8 Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10 Case 7 A Bloody Mess
11 Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14
Caution 2 Everybody Lies 17 Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific
Misconduct 17 Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18 Case 11
While You're Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21 Case 12 Study Subject or
Human Guinea Pig? 22 Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in
Clinical Trials 23 Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against
the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26 Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad
Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27 Caution 3 The Genome Isn't What It
Used to Be 34 Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34
Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36 Case 18 Wearing Genes from the
Gulf War 37 Caution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40 Case 19 Tomorrow's
Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40 Case 20 An Argument
against Human Cloning 42 Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or
Double the Love? 49 Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51 Case 23 Baby
Banking 53 Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy
54 Caution 5 Don't Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57 Case 25 "Nanoethics": The
ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57 Case 26 The Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea 62 Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64 Case 28 My Eye's on
You 66 Caution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It
Doesn't 69 Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed
Immunity to Common Sense? 69 Case 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun?
Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 71 Case 31 "Universal" Healthcare:
A Long Way Off 73 Case 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 75 Case 33 HIV
Testing Must Be Routine 76 Case 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster
78 Case 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 79
Case 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 82
Case 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 83
Caution 7 "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself " 86 Case 38 Medicine
Is Not a Steel Mill 86 Case 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck
Finding Them 87 Case 40 Medicine's Dirty Laundry 89 Case 41 Dr. Koop: Meet
Dr. Ethics 91 Case 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn't There an App for That? 94
Case 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 95 Caution 8 You Aren't Dead Until
Someone Tells You So 98 Case 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and
Recreation 98 Case 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 99
Case 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our
Ancestors Did 100 Case 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 102 Case 48 A Few
Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 104 Case 49 Living Wills Save
Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 106 Case 50 The Plural of
Anecdote Is Not Ambien 107 Caution 9 Eat Only Food for Thought 110 Case 51
Fat in America 110 Case 52 Breakfast for Thought 111 Case 53 Want Fish?
Ethics First, Please 113 Case 54 Dying for Food 115 Caution 10 Beware of
Ideologues and Demagogues 117 Case 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate
Whores, and Atheists 117 Case 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables)
120 Case 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 123 Case 58 Not in the Bush
Leagues Anymore 125 Case 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 128
Case 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the
California Sun 139 Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 146 A Hot and Cold
Running Genius 146 Science Must Slow Its Speed 148 Sources and Credits 150
Index 160
Bleeding Edge 1 Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1 Case 2
Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3 Case 3 "Shroom" Science: Safe and
Effective? 4 Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6 Case 5 No More Periods, Period
8 Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10 Case 7 A Bloody Mess
11 Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14
Caution 2 Everybody Lies 17 Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific
Misconduct 17 Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18 Case 11
While You're Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21 Case 12 Study Subject or
Human Guinea Pig? 22 Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in
Clinical Trials 23 Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against
the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26 Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad
Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27 Caution 3 The Genome Isn't What It
Used to Be 34 Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34
Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36 Case 18 Wearing Genes from the
Gulf War 37 Caution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40 Case 19 Tomorrow's
Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40 Case 20 An Argument
against Human Cloning 42 Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or
Double the Love? 49 Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51 Case 23 Baby
Banking 53 Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy
54 Caution 5 Don't Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57 Case 25 "Nanoethics": The
ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57 Case 26 The Devil and the Deep
Blue Sea 62 Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64 Case 28 My Eye's on
You 66 Caution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It
Doesn't 69 Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed
Immunity to Common Sense? 69 Case 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun?
Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 71 Case 31 "Universal" Healthcare:
A Long Way Off 73 Case 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 75 Case 33 HIV
Testing Must Be Routine 76 Case 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster
78 Case 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 79
Case 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 82
Case 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 83
Caution 7 "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself " 86 Case 38 Medicine
Is Not a Steel Mill 86 Case 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck
Finding Them 87 Case 40 Medicine's Dirty Laundry 89 Case 41 Dr. Koop: Meet
Dr. Ethics 91 Case 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn't There an App for That? 94
Case 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 95 Caution 8 You Aren't Dead Until
Someone Tells You So 98 Case 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and
Recreation 98 Case 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 99
Case 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our
Ancestors Did 100 Case 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 102 Case 48 A Few
Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 104 Case 49 Living Wills Save
Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 106 Case 50 The Plural of
Anecdote Is Not Ambien 107 Caution 9 Eat Only Food for Thought 110 Case 51
Fat in America 110 Case 52 Breakfast for Thought 111 Case 53 Want Fish?
Ethics First, Please 113 Case 54 Dying for Food 115 Caution 10 Beware of
Ideologues and Demagogues 117 Case 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate
Whores, and Atheists 117 Case 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables)
120 Case 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 123 Case 58 Not in the Bush
Leagues Anymore 125 Case 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 128
Case 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the
California Sun 139 Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 146 A Hot and Cold
Running Genius 146 Science Must Slow Its Speed 148 Sources and Credits 150
Index 160