{"product_id":"bioethics-for-beginners-9780470659113","title":"Bioethics for Beginners","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 1 Tip-Toe When Walking on the Bleeding Edge 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 1 The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 2 Design: More Intelligent Every Day 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 3 “Shroom” Science: Safe and Effective? 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 4 A Robot Code of Ethics 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 5 No More Periods, Period 8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 6 Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 7 A Bloody Mess 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 8 Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 2 Everybody Lies 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 9 Lies, Damn Lies . . . and Scientific Misconduct 17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 10 Conflict of Interest Means Business at NIH 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 11 While You’re Here, How about a Spinal Tap? 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 12 Study Subject or Human Guinea Pig? 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 13 The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in Clinical Trials 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 14 Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? 26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 15 Dr. Hwang and the Bad Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 3 The Genome Isn’t What It Used to Be 34\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 16 Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 17 Enhancement Comes from Insecurity 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 18 Wearing Genes from the Gulf War 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 4 Reproduce at Your Own Peril 40\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 19 Tomorrow’s Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 20 An Argument against Human Cloning 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 21 Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or Double the Love? 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 22 Grave Robbing the Cradle 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 23 Baby Banking 53\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 24 Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 5 Don’t Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff 57\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 25 “Nanoethics”: The ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 26 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 27 The Merging of Man and Machine 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 28 My Eye’s on You 66\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 6 The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It Doesn’t 69\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 29 Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed Immunity to Common Sense? 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 30 Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun? Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 31 “Universal” Healthcare: A Long Way Off 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 32 Newborn Screening with a Twist 75\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 33 HIV Testing Must Be Routine 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 34 Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 35 Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare 79\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 36 A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 37 To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 7 “Do No Harm” Has Become “Care for Yourself” 86\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 38 Medicine Is Not a Steel Mill 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 39 Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck Finding Them 87\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 40 Medicine’s Dirty Laundry 89\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 41 Dr. Koop: Meet Dr. Ethics 91\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 42 Organ Donation: Why Isn’t There an App for That? 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 43 Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 8 You Aren’t Dead Until Someone Tells You So 98\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 44 Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and Recreation 98\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 45 Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 46 The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our Ancestors Did 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 47 The Case of the Body Snatchers 102\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 48 A Few Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case 104\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 49 Living Wills Save Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 50 The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Ambien 107\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 9 Eat Only Food for Thought 110\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 51 Fat in America 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 52 Breakfast for Thought 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 53 Want Fish? Ethics First, Please 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 54 Dying for Food 115\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaution 10 Beware of Ideologues and Demagogues 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 55 Bioethics for Christians, Corporate Whores, and Atheists 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 56 Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables) 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 57 The Kevorkianization of Cloning 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 58 Not in the Bush Leagues Anymore 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 59 Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCase 60 The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the California Sun 139\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Hot and Cold Running Genius 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScience Must Slow Its Speed 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources and Credits 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 160\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402393264471,"sku":"9780470659113","price":23.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780470659113.jpg?v=1730480264","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bioethics-for-beginners-9780470659113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}