Re-creating medicine : ethical issues at the frontiers of medicine / Gregory E. Pence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pence, Gregory E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical innovations--Moral and ethical aspects.

Medical innovations.

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Ethics, Medical.

Genetic Engineering.

Medical Subjects:

Ethics, Medical.

Bioethics.

Genetic Engineering.

Physical Description:

x, 207 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Recreating medicine

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2000]

Summary:

RECREATING MEDICINE offers a bold and insightful exploration of ethical issues that have arisen as a result of technological advances in medicine. Pence's candid discussions include the selling of organs and embryos, genetic planning, and human cloning. His controversial arguments often confront common thinking about medical technology -- but while going "outside the box", Pence always keeps a careful eye on ethics and improvements in our quality of life.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Re-creating medicine by re-creating medical ethics

2. Re-creating the doctor-patient relationship: the ethics of cybermedicine

3. Re-creating organ donation: the case for reimbursement

4. Re-creating motherhood: buying reproductive help

5. Re-creating children: choosing traits

6. Re-creating our genes: cloning humans

7. Re-creating nature: patenting human genes?

8. Re-creating ourselves: no limits

9. Re-creating bioethics

10. Conclusions and reflections

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0847696901

OCLC:

43114535