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.
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Looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine including gene therapy to produce 'brave new babies,' human eggs and embryos for sale, and experiments on human embryos. This work argues that the conservatism of the medical establishment, the bioethics community, and the public has created shibboleths that impede improvements in our quality of life.
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Chapter 1: Re-creating Medicine by Re-Creating Medical Ethics Chapter 2: Re-creating the Doctor-Patient Relationship: The Ethics of Cybermedicine Chapter 3: Re-creating Organ Donation: The Case for Reimbursement Chapter 4: Re-creating Motherhood: Buying Reproductive Help Chapter 5: Re-creating Children: Choosing Traits Chapter 6: Re-creating Our Genes: Cloning Humans Chapter 7: Re-creating Nature: Patenting Human Genes? Chapter 8: Re-creating Ourselves: No Limits Chapter 9: Re-creating Bioethics Chapter 10: Conclusions and Reflections
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Chapters provide thorough and persuasive arguments for rethinking economic incentives for organ donation, providing optimal autonomy for reproductive decision-making, and other controversial positions. Whether or not one agrees with his arguments, Pence challenges stale thinking. At the very least, the development of careful responses to his positions should help to clarify thinking on the issues that he addresses.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780847696918
Publisert
2007-05-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield
Vekt
308 gr
Høyde
221 mm
Bredde
142 mm
Dybde
18 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
208

Forfatter

Biographical note

Gregory E. Pence is professor in the School of Medicine and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of several well-known texts in medical ethics including Who's Afraid of Human Cloning and Flesh of My Flesh (Rowman & Littlefield 1998).