Bioethics for beginners : 60 cases and cautions from the moral frontier of healthcare
"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 twenty-first-century medicine while giving the reader an informed basis on which to answer personal, practical question such as: should we test and modify our genes? How much is too much in the world of designer food and pets? Should we enhance ourselves, and, if so, how far beyond our natural abilities? Must we design our children? How long should we plan to live, and how should we think about dying in the twenty-first century?-- Book jacket flap
Print Book, English, 2012
Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, 2012
Case Reports
xv, 169 pages ; 24 cm
9780470659113, 0470659114
762372389
Caution 1. Tip-toe when walking on the bleeding edge
Caution 2. Everybody lies
Caution 3. The genome isn't what it used to be
Caution 4. Reproduce at your own peril
Caution 5. Don't sweat the nano-sized stuff
Caution 6. The state will protect your health right up until it doesn't
Caution 7. "Do no harm" has become "care for yourself"
Caution 8. You arent dead until someone tells you so
Caution 9. Eat only food for thought
Caution 10. Beware of ideologues and demagogues
Conclusion: Move slowly and stay cool