Brave new bioethics /
Gregory E. Pence.
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
- xiii, 177 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Medical ethics is whatever you say it is -- I meet the AIDS bigot -- Do we really value human life? -- Exercise is dangerous to your health -- Bioethicists and the media: finicky lovers -- Re-creating bioethics -- Bush's Bioethics Council: dead on arrival? -- On reading Shakespeare to get into medical school -- Happy twentieth birthday, Louise Brown -- McCaughey septuplets: God's will on human choice -- Our new idol, life -- Twinning embryos isn't cloning -- Cloning Michael J. Fox's embryos -- A sheep is cloned, Tah Dah! -- Ban sexual reproduction! -- Please don't criminalize human cloning -- Why science fiction distorts views of cloning -- If parents expect bad things from cloning, should we ban it? -- Do not go slowly into that dark night: mercy-killing in Holland -- Even with a living will, it's tough to die well in America -- In case of terminal illness, call your lawyer, not your physician -- Everyone creates soaring medical costs -- How to say "no more" to patients -- What the Clinton Medical Plan should have emphasized -- Should doctors treat people with AIDS? -- How politicization of facts about AIDS helped kill people with AIDS -- Don't fear the Human Genome Project -- Children's dissent to research: a minor matter? -- Organ donation can kill you -- Big Brother is watching: the ethics of cybermedicine -- How to get AIDS drugs for Africans -- Indigenous peoples deserve profits from drugs from their lands -- Norman Borlaug: he fed a billion people, but you don't know his name -- Hating biotechnology: a tree with deep philosophical roots.