Bioethics for Beginners (eBook)

60 Cases and Cautions from the Moral Frontier of Healthcare

Glenn McGee (Autor)

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2012
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781118254646 (ISBN)

Infos

How far is too far? 60 cases illustrating modern bioethical dilemmas

Bioethics 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.

 

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.

Inhalt

bio ethics for beginners: 60 CASES AND CAUTIONS FROM THE MORAL FRONTIER OF HEALTHCARE 1
Contents 9
Preface 13
Acknowledgements 17
Caution 1: Tip-Toe When Walking on the Bleeding Edge 19
Case 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 19
Case 2 Design: More Intelligent Every Day 21
Case 3 “Shroom” Science: Safe and Effective? 22
Case 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 24
Case 5 No More Periods, Period 26
Case 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 28
Case 7 A Bloody Mess 29
Case 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 32
Caution 2: Everybody Lies 35
Case 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific Misconduct 35
Case 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 36
Case 11 While You’re Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 39
Case 12 Study Subject or Human Guinea Pig? 40
Case 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in Clinical Trials 41
Case 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 44
Case 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 45
Caution 3: The Genome Isn’t What It Used to Be 52
Case 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 52
Case 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 54
Case 18 Wearing Genes from the Gulf War 55
Caution 4: Reproduce at Your Own Peril 58
Case 19 Tomorrow’s Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 58
Case 20 An Argument against Human Cloning 60
Case 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or Double the Love? 67
Case 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 69
Case 23 Baby Banking 71
Case 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy 72
Caution 5: Don’t Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 75
Case 25 “Nanoethics”: The ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 75
Case 26 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 80
Case 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 82
Case 28 My Eye’s on You 84
Caution 6: The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It Doesn’t 87
Case 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed Immunity to Common Sense? 87
Case 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun? Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 89
Case 31 “Universal” Healthcare: A Long Way Off 91
Case 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 93
Case 33 HIV Testing Must Be Routine 94
Case 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster 96
Case 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 97
Case 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 100
Case 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 101
Caution 7: “Do No Harm” Has Become “Care for Yourself ” 104
Case 38 Medicine Is Not a Steel Mill 104
Case 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck Finding Them 105
Case 40 Medicine’s Dirty Laundry 107
Case 41 Dr. Koop: Meet Dr. Ethics 109
Case 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn’t There an App for That? 112
Case 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 113
Caution 8: You Aren’t Dead Until Someone Tells You So 116
Case 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and Recreation 116
Case 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 117
Case 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our Ancestors Did 118
Case 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 120
Case 48 A Few Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 122
Case 49 Living Wills Save Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 124
Case 50 The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Ambien 125
Caution 9: Eat Only Food for Thought 128
Case 51 Fat in America 128
Case 52 Breakfast for Thought 129
Case 53 Want Fish? Ethics First, Please 131
Case 54 Dying for Food 133
Caution 10: Beware of Ideologues and Demagogues 135
Case 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate Whores, and Atheists 135
Case 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables) 138
Case 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 141
Case 58 Not in the Bush Leagues Anymore 143
Case 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 146
Case 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the California Sun 157
Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 164
A Hot and Cold Running Genius 164
Science Must Slow Its Speed 166
Sources and Credits 168
Index 178

Rezensionen

Glenn McGee constantly breathes life into bioethics by ferreting
out the interesting, the unusual, and the important ethical
issues. Bioethics for Beginners is a brilliant
introduction to the ethical issues that make science really
interesting, and a masterfully written read that combines
scholarship, humor and humility.

-Chris Mooney, author, The Republican War on Science and
The Republican Brain

In a concise and matter-of-fact fashion, McGee stacks explosive
issue upon explosive issue, from abhorrent clinical trials to the
radical research that undermines our sense of humanity. An
essential guide to the bioethics powder keg.

-Richard Gallagher, Editor-in-Chief at Lives: New Answers for
Global Health and co-founder of Hopeful Monster
Publishing

With its approachable style and diverse content, Bioethics for
Beginners is proof that bioethics is neither stale nor reserved
for the ivory towers of academia.

- Nathan A. Kottkamp, Founder, National Healthcare Decisions Day;
Partner, McGuireWoods, LLP

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.2.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: answer • Basis • Beginners • Bioethics • Bioethics & Medical Ethics • Bioethik • Bioethik, Medizinethik • Book • cases • Choices • Designer • Dilemmas • Food • genes • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen • Gesundheits- u. Sozialwesen / Recht u. Ethik • Giant • Headlines • Health & Social Care • Law & Ethics in Health & Social Care • light • Medical • Medical Law & Ethics • Medical Science • Medicine • Medizin • Medizinrecht u. Ethik • NATURAL • New • Personal • Philosophie • Philosophy • Practical • questions • readable • Reader • Social • Time • World • Worlds
• ISBN-13: 9781118254646 / 9781118254646