Re-creating Medicine Ethical Issues at the Frontiers of Medicine

by Pence, Gregory E.

• ISBN13: 9780847696918
• ISBN10: 084769691X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-30
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

In this important new book Gregory E. Pence looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine including gene therapy to produce 'brave new babies,' cloning, human eggs and embryos for sale, and experiments on human embryos. Pence argues that the conservatism of the medical establishment, the bioethics community, and the public at large has created shibboleths that impede improvements in our quality of life.

Author Biography

Gregory E. Pence is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Re-creating Medicine by Re-Creating Medical Ethics	p. 1
Re-creating the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Ethics of Cybermedicine	p. 7
Re-creating Organ Donation: The Case for Reimbursement	p. 33
Re-creating Motherhood: Buying Reproductive Help	p. 63
Re-creating Children: Choosing Traits	p. 95
Re-creating Our Genes: Cloning Humans	p. 119
Re-creating Nature: Patenting Human Genes?	p. 137
Re-creating Ourselves: No Limits	p. 161
Re-creating Bioethics	p. 183
Conclusions and Reflections	p. 197
Index	p. 201
About the Author	p. 000
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