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Smart mice, not-so-smart people : an interesting and amusing guide to bioethics /

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 giv...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caplan, Arthur L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a ALSO BY ARTHUR L. CAPLAN; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION -- Is America Going to Hell?; Part I -- General Interest; Duty versus Conscience; The Ethics of Brain Imaging; Has Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Gone Too Far?; Ethical Lessons from the Flu Bug; It's Time for the Government to Act; Preventing a Public Health Disaster; The Colonel Kicks the Habit; Shame on Jeb Bush; Stark Raving Madness; Part II -- End of Life; Million Dollar Baby; Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon; Lessons from Terri Schiavo; Part III -- Engineering Ourselves; Is Cosmetic Surgery Always Vain? 
505 8 |a Face-off over Gene FoodsHeightened Questions about Growth Hormone; Brain Enhancement; Unfair? Unnatural?; Seasonale: Medicine for the Sake of Convenience?; Raffy and the Trouble with Steroids; When Steroids and Politics Mix; ANDi the Fluorescent Monkey; PART IV -- Engineering Plants, Microbes, and Animals; Are Genetically Modified Foods F it 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; Part V -- Experimentation Ethics; Testing Biological and Chemical Weapons: Any Volunteers? 
505 8 |a Lawsuits Are Not the AnswerCommercial 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?; Part VI -- Health Reform; Cause Célèbre; 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. 
505 8 |a Part VII -- Human Cloning and Stem Cell ResearchCloning: Separating the Science from the Fiction; Cloning Myths; The Bottom Line; Cloning Flicks Offer a Moral Lesson; Embryonic Cloning Feat Points to Problems with Bush Policy; Korean Cloning Fraud; Media Bungled Clone Claim Coverage; What's the Harm in a Little Fun?; Public Left Confused and Clueless; Scientific Standards Ignored; Policy Ramifications; Chutzpah; The End of the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate; Part VIII -- Mapping Ourselves; Ethics First, Then Genetics; His Genes, Our Genome; Let's Keep Our Genome in Perspective; "Darwin Vindicated!" 
505 8 |a Ready for the Genomic Age?Unethical Policies Undermine Value of Genetic Testing; Who Needs Bill Gates?; Part IX -- Reproduction; Let's Talk about Sex; Model Eggs; Soldier's Sperm Offers Biological Insurance Policy; What about Female Troops?; Ethical Issues Unanswered; Taking Reproductive Responsibility; Test Tube Babies versus Clones; The Problem with "Embryo Adoption"; "Pre-born Children Waiting"; What's the Big Deal?; A Government Sham; Are You Ever Too Old to Have a Baby?; Part X -- The State of Science in the United States; Hullabaloo over MMR Risk Misses the Point. 
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