De la Vida a la Muerte : Ciencia y Bioetica

by Thomasma, David C.; Kushner, Thomasine

• ISBN13: 9788483230732
• ISBN10: 8483230739
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Ediciones Akal Sa

Summary

Biology has been advancing with explosive pace over the last few years and in so doing has raised a host of ethical issues. This book, aimed at the general reader, reviews the major advances of recent years in biology and medicine and explores their ethical implications. From birth to death the reader is taken on a tour of human biology - covering genetics, reproduction, development, transplantation, aging, dying and also the use of animals in research and the impact of human populations on this planet. In each chapter there is a sketch of a field's most recent scientific advances, combined with discussions of the ethical and moral principles and implications for social frameworks and public policy raised by those advances. Anybody interested or concerned about the ethical dilemmas caused by advances in science and medicine should read this book.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction David C. Thomasma and Thomasine Kushner: Part II. Genetics: 1. Genetics: a scientific sketch Karen Dawson

2. The genetic revolution Daniel Callahan

3. Genetic knowledge: some legal and ethical questions Robert Schwartz

Part III. Reproductive Technologies: 4. The 'Art' of medically-assisted reproduction: an embryo is an embryo is an embryo Michael E. McClure

5. 'O brave new world': rationality in reproduction Albert R. Jonsen

6. Reproduction, abortion and rights Rosamond Rhodes

Part IV. Children and Women in Health Care: 7. The critically ill neonate James M Adams

8. Medical technology and the child Amnon Goldworth

9. On caring for children Mary Mahowald

Part V. Transpantation: 10. Clinical transplantation Robert Sells

11. Transplantation and ethics Raanan Gillon

12. Legalizing payment for transplantable cadaveric organs James F. Blumstein

13. Part VI. Aging: 14. Scientific advances in aging John Morley

15. Ethics and aging George Agich

16. People with dementia: a moral challenge Stephen Post

Part VII. Prolonging Life/Death: 17. Personal dying and medical death Steven Miles

18. Stopping futile medical treatment: ethical issues Nancy Jecker and Lawrence J. Schneiderman

19. The sorcerer's broom: medicine's rampant technology Eric J. Cassell

Part VIII. Care of the Dying: 20. Modern technology and care of the dying Ronald E Cranford

21. Care of the dying from an ethics perspective T. Patrick Hill

Part IX. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide: 22. Euthanasia and assisted suicide Pieter Admiraal

23. Physician- sssisted suicide: progress or peril? Christine Cassel

24. 'I will give no deadly drug': why doctors must not kill Leon Kass

25. Voluntary euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions: doctors should be permitted to give death a helping hand Helga Kuhse

Part X. Humans as Research Subjects: 26. Humans as research subjects Herman Wigodsky and Sue Keir Hoppe

27. Research involving children as subjects Robert J. Levine

28. Future challenges of medical research review boards Charles R. McKay

Part XI. Using Animals in Research: 29. Animals in research Franklin Loew

30. Taking duties seriously: medical experimentation, animal rights and moral incoherence Daniel A. Moros

31. Animal rights and social practices Ted Benton

Part XII. The Environment: 32. The science of the environment Andrew Pullin

33. Environmental ethics Andrew Dobson

34. Human activity and environment ethics Andrew Jameton

Part XIII. Postscript David C. Thomasma and Thomasine Kushner.