Brave new bioethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Pence, Gregory E. |
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| 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 |
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
