Bioethics for Beginners

Glenn McGee 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2012년 03월 14일 출간

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How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmasBioethics for Beginners maps the giant dilemmas posed by new technologies and medical choices, using 60 cases taken from our headlines, and from the worlds of medicine and science. This eminently readable book takes it one case at a time, shedding light on the social, economic and legal side of 21st century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical questions. Unlocking the debate behind the headlines, this book combines clear thinking with the very latest in science and medicine, enabling readers to decide for themselves exactly what the scientific future should hold.

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Preface xiAcknowledgements xvCaution 1 Tip-Toe When Walking on the Bleeding Edge 1Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1Case 2 Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3Case 3 &"Shroom&" Science: Safe and Effective? 4Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6Case 5 No More Periods, Period 8Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10Case 7 A Bloody Mess 11Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14Caution 2 Everybody Lies 17Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific Misconduct 17Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18Case 11 While You&-re Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21Case 12 Study Subject or Human Guinea Pig? 22Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in Clinical Trials 23Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise upAgainst the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27Caution 3 The Genome Isn&-t What It Used to Be 34Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36Case 18 Wearing Genes from the Gulf War 37Caution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40Case 19 Tomorrow&-s Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40Case 20 An Argument against Human Cloning 42Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or Double the Love? 49Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51Case 23 Baby Banking 53Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy 54Caution 5 Don&-t Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57Case 25 &"Nanoethics&": The ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57Case 26 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 62Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64Case 28 My Eye&-s on You 66Caution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It Doesn&-t 69Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed Immuni

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저자(글) Glenn McGee

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Dr. Glenn McGee is President of the Division of Research Ethics at Celltex Therapeutics, a stem cell research company in Houston, Texas. He held two successive endowed chairs in bioethics after serving for a decade as professor at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medical Ethics. He is the founding editor of The American Journal of Bioethics and a leading authority on ethical issues in science and medicine. McGee has been a columnist for The Scientist, New York Times News Service, and MSNBC, and a frequent guest and commentator for National Public Radio, CNN, Fox, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, and Oprah, among others. McGee's books include The Perfect Baby (2nd edn., 2000), The Human Cloning Debate (with A. Caplan, 4th edn., 2004), and the best-selling Beyond Genetics: The User's Guide to DNA (2004). In addition, he has authored hundreds of scholarly papers about ethical, legal, and social issues in medicine.