Brave New Bioethics

by Pence, Gregory E.

• ISBN13: 9780742514379
• ISBN10: 0742514374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

This book gather's thirty-five of Pence's most influential, groundbreaking, and personal essays into one broad-ranging volume. It included essays on cloning, AIDS, dignified death,and test-tube babies.

Author Biography

Gregory E. Pence is a medical ethicist with twenty years of experience reviewing significant cases in bioethics, and he is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Mabama at Birmingham.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Events in a Bioethicist's Life
Medical Ethics Is Whatever You Say It Is	p. 1
I Meet the AIDS Bigot	p. 6
Do We Really Value Human Life?	p. 10
Exercise Is Dangerous to Your Health	p. 13
On Bioethics and Bioethicists
Bioethicists and the Media: Finicky Lovers	p. 17
Re-Creating Bioethics	p. 23
Bush's Bioethics Council: Dead on Arrival?	p. 28
On Reading Shakespeare to Get into Medical School	p. 31
Assisted Reproduction
Happy Twentieth Birthday, Louise Brown	p. 35
The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?	p. 39
Our New Idol, Life	p. 44
Cloning Embryos
Twinning Embryos Isn't Cloning	p. 49
Cloning Michael J. Fox's Embryos	p. 53
Cloning Humans
A Sheep Is Cloned, Tah Dah!	p. 57
Ban Sexual Reproduction!	p. 61
Please Don't Criminalize Human Cloning	p. 64
Why Science Fiction Distorts Views of Cloning	p. 70
If Parents Expect Bad Things from Cloning, Should We Ban It?	p. 77
Death and Dying
Do Not Go Slowly into That Dark Night: Mercy Killing in Holland	p. 87
Even with a Living Will, It's Tough to Die Well in America	p. 94
In Case of Terminal Illness, Call Your Lawyer, Not Your Physician	p. 100
Money, Ethics, and Medicine
Everyone Creates Soaring Medical Costs	p. 104
How to Say "No More" to Patients	p. 108
What the Clinton Medical Plan Should Have Emphasized	p. 111
Ethics and AIDS
Should Doctors Treat People with AIDS?	p. 116
How Politicization of Facts about AIDS Helped Kill People with AIDS	p. 121
General Bioethics
Don't Fear the Human Genome Project	p. 135
Children's Dissent to Research: A Minor Matter?	p. 141
Organ Donation Can Kill You	p. 146
Big Brother Is Watching: The Ethics of Cybermedicine	p. 149
Development of New Drugs
How to Get AIDS Drugs for Africans	p. 153
Indigenous Peoples Deserve Profits from Drugs from Their Lands	p. 156
Food and Ethics
Norman Borlaug: He Fed a Billion People but You Don't Know His Name	p. 159
Hating Biotechnology: A Tree with Deep Philosophical Roots	p. 163
Index	p. 169
About the Author	p. 177
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