Brave new bioethics /

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Author / Creator:Pence, Gregory E.
Imprint:Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
Description:xiii, 177 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5126587
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ISBN:0742514366 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Events in a Bioethicist's Life
  • 1. Medical Ethics Is Whatever You Say It Is
  • 2. I Meet the AIDS Bigot
  • 3. Do We Really Value Human Life?
  • 4. Exercise Is Dangerous to Your Health
  • On Bioethics and Bioethicists
  • 5. Bioethicists and the Media: Finicky Lovers
  • 6. Re-Creating Bioethics
  • 7. Bush's Bioethics Council: Dead on Arrival?
  • 8. On Reading Shakespeare to Get into Medical School
  • Assisted Reproduction
  • 9. Happy Twentieth Birthday, Louise Brown
  • 10. The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?
  • 11. Our New Idol, Life
  • Cloning Embryos
  • 12. Twinning Embryos Isn't Cloning
  • 13. Cloning Michael J. Fox's Embryos
  • Cloning Humans
  • 14. A Sheep Is Cloned, Tah Dah!
  • 15. Ban Sexual Reproduction!
  • 16. Please Don't Criminalize Human Cloning
  • 17. Why Science Fiction Distorts Views of Cloning
  • If Parents Expect Bad Things from Cloning, Should We Ban It?
  • Death and Dying
  • 19. Do Not Go Slowly into That Dark Night: Mercy Killing in Holland
  • 20. Even with a Living Will, It's Tough to Die Well in America
  • 21. In Case of Terminal Illness, Call Your Lawyer, Not Your Physician
  • Money, Ethics, and Medicine
  • 22. Everyone Creates Soaring Medical Costs
  • 23. How to Say "No More" to Patients
  • 24. What the Clinton Medical Plan Should Have Emphasized
  • Ethics and AIDS
  • 25. Should Doctors Treat People with AIDS?
  • 26. How Politicization of Facts about AIDS Helped Kill People with AIDS
  • General Bioethics
  • 27. Don't Fear the Human Genome Project
  • 28. Children's Dissent to Research: A Minor Matter?
  • 29. Organ Donation Can Kill You
  • 30. Big Brother Is Watching: The Ethics of Cybermedicine
  • Development of New Drugs
  • 31. How to Get AIDS Drugs for Africans
  • 32. Indigenous Peoples Deserve Profits from Drugs from Their Lands
  • Food and Ethics
  • 33. Norman Borlaug: He Fed a Billion People but You Don't Know His Name
  • 34. Hating Biotechnology: A Tree with Deep Philosophical Roots
  • Index
  • About the Author