This volume on biomedicine should be appropriate for a course in bioethics, or as a supplemental reading in a biology course. It outlines technologies and developments in medical research, reproductive technology, genetics, AIDS, and managed care. Ethical issues in the laboratory, in clinical research and in public health are examined and subjects such as cloning, abortion, assisted suicide, and needle exchange programmes are examined.
This volume on biomedicine should be appropriate for a course in bioethics, or as a supplemental reading in a biology course. It outlines technologies...
This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concrete examples of public controversy are considered in detail: the efficacy of Laetrile, the classification of homosexuality as a disease, the setting of safety standards in the workplace, and the utility of nuclear energy as a source of power. The essays in this volume show that debates about these cases are not confined to matters of empirical fact. Rather, as is seen with most scientific and technical controversies, they focus on and are...
This collection of essays examines the ways in which disputes and controversies about the application of scientific knowledge are resolved. Four concr...
What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical style, Caplan one of the most sought-after bioethicists of our time provokes discussion on issues at the center of the new genetics, cloning in the laboratory and in the media, stem cell...
What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart Peo...
No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and science have made organ procurement, or the search and transfer of organs and tissue from one body to another, a very important issue. Since the demand for healthy organs far exceeds the supply, many questions enter this debate, blending medicine with politics, ethics, research, religion, and other concerns. How are we to meet the need? Can we do so and still respect personal ethics and religious convictions? Can organs be obtained without turning...
No one argues the need for transplants. The debate centers on how to satisfy the great need for healthy organs. Advances in medical technology and sci...
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor--and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a thing as mental illness, or is mental illness just a myth? Is Alzheimer's really a disease? What is menopause--a biological or a social construction?
Historically one can see that health, disease, and illness...
In the 1850s, "Drapetomania" was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desir...
Three leading medical ethicists use the Shiavo case as a launching point for this even-handed, in-depth examination of the complex and controversial issues surrounding the refusal of medical nutrition and hydration.
Three leading medical ethicists use the Shiavo case as a launching point for this even-handed, in-depth examination of the complex and controversial i...
"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society
"Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." --The Washington Post
"Caplan's views are important and instructive.... This] book represents some of his best work." --New England Journal of Medicine
"Caplan's book] is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."--The Journal of the American Medical Association
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"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." --Health and Canadian Society
In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents refused to consent to surgery or intravenous feeding. The hospital unsuccessfully sought a court order to force treatment, and appeals to higher courts also failed. The child, identified as Baby Doe by the news media, subsequently died. The events in Bloomington became the catalyst for action by the Reagan administration, the courts, and Congress that culminated in a federal policy that makes failure to treat newborns with disabilities a form of...
In April 1982, an infant boy was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with Down syndrome and a defective, but surgically correctable, esophagus. His parents ...
