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Introduction: Is
America Going to Hell? |
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PART I |
GENERAL INTEREST |
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Duty versus Conscience |
3 |
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The Ethics of Brain
Imaging |
6 |
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Has Direct-to-Consumer
Advertising Gone: Too Far? |
7 |
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Ethical Lessons from
the Flu Bug |
8 |
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The Colonel Kicks the
Habit |
11 |
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Shame on Jeb Bush |
13 |
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Stark Raving Madness |
15 |
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PART II |
END OF LIFE |
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Million Dollar Baby |
1? |
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Physician-Assisted
Suicide in Oregon |
22 |
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Lessons from Terri Schiavo |
25 |
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PART III |
ENGINEERING OURSELVES |
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Is Cosmetic Surgery
Always Vain? |
31 |
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Face-Off Over Gene Foods |
33 |
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Heightened Questions
About Growth Hormone |
35 |
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Brain Enhancement |
36 |
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Seasonale:
Medicine for the Sake of Convenience? |
39 |
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Raffy and
the Trouble with Steroids |
41 |
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When Steroids and
Politics Mix |
43 |
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ANDi the
Fluorescent Monkey |
45 |
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PART IV |
ENGINEERING PLANTS, MICROBES, AND ANIMALS |
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Are Genetically
Modified Foods Fit for a Dog? |
49 |
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Miss Cleo, Meet “CC,”
the Kitty Clone |
51 |
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Whipping Up the Avian
Flu |
53 |
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Should Scientists
Create New Life? |
55 |
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Smart Mice,
Not-So-Smart People |
57 |
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PART V |
EXPERIMENTATION ETHICS |
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Testing Biological and
Chemical Weapons: Any Volunteers? |
61 |
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Lawsuits are not the
Answer |
64 |
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Commercial Concerns
should Take a Backseat to Public Awareness |
66 |
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Research Ban at Hopkins
a Sign of Ethical Crisis |
68 |
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Research on the Newly
Dead |
71 |
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Will We Ever Debunk Our
Mythology About Human Subjects Research? |
72 |
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PART VI |
HEALTH REFORM |
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Cause Célèbre |
77 |
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Cheap Drugs are not the
Answer to the African Aids |
79 |
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Humility or Hubris? |
81 |
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Fiddling While the
Health System Burns |
83 |
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No Coverage for Kids a
Moral Failure |
85 |
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New World Calls for New
Health Care |
87 |
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Our Dying Health Care
System |
89 |
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The Moral Tragedy of
Chronic Illness |
91 |
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PART VII |
HUMAN CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH |
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Cloning: Separating the
Science from the Fiction |
97 |
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Cloning Flicks Offer a
Moral Lesson |
100 |
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Embryonic Cloning Feat
Points to Problems with Bush Policy |
102 |
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Korean Cloning Fraud |
105 |
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Media Bungled Clone
Claim Coverage |
108 |
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Chutzpah |
112 |
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The End of the
Embryonic Stem Cell Debate |
116 |
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PART VIII |
MAPPING OURSELVES |
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Ethics First, Then
Genetics |
121 |
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His Genes, Our Genome |
124 |
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Let’s Keep Our Genome
in Perspective |
126 |
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“Darwin Vindicated!” |
129 |
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Ready for the Genomic
Age? |
131 |
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Unethical Policies
Undermine Value of Genetic Testing |
134 |
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Who Needs Bill Gates? |
136 |
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PART IX |
REPRODUCTION |
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Let’s Talk About Sex |
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Model Eggs |
144 |
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Soldier’s Sperm Offers
Biological Insurance Policy |
146 |
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Talking Reproductive
Responsibility |
148 |
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Test Tube Babies versus
Clones |
150 |
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The Problem with
“Embryo Adoption” |
153 |
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Are You Ever Too Old to
have a Baby? |
156 |
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PART X |
THE STATE OF SCIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES |
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Hullabaloo Over MMR
Risk Misses the Point |
161 |
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If Science Becomes
Politicized, Where do We Go for Truth? |
163 |
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Is Biomedical Research
Too Dangerous to Pursue? |
165 |
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Misusing the Nazi
Analogy |
168 |
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How the President’s
Council on Bioethics Lost its Credibility |
170 |
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Pray it Ain’t So |
174 |
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Who Wins When Religion
Squares Off Against Science? |
176 |
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Why are these Nuts Testifying? |
180 |
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PART XI |
DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION OF ORGANS |
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About Face |
185 |
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Restricting Blood
Donations or Mad Cow the Deadlier Threat? |
188 |
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Jumping the Line |
190 |
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www.matchingdonors.Com |
192 |
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Misguided Effort to
Ease the Organ Shortage |
194 |
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No Excuse for Blood
Donor Bias |
197 |
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Sperm Transplants
should Spur Debate |
199 |
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The Return of Fetal
Tissue Transplants |
201 |
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Afterword: What
is Bioethics? |
203 |
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About the Author |
210 |
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