| Preface |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Events in a Bioethicist's Life |
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Medical Ethics Is Whatever You Say It Is |
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1 | (5) |
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6 | (4) |
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Do We Really Value Human Life? |
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10 | (3) |
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Exercise Is Dangerous to Your Health |
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13 | (4) |
| On Bioethics and Bioethicists |
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Bioethicists and the Media: Finicky Lovers |
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17 | (6) |
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23 | (5) |
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Bush's Bioethics Council: Dead on Arrival? |
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28 | (3) |
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On Reading Shakespeare to Get into Medical School |
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31 | (4) |
| Assisted Reproduction |
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Happy Twentieth Birthday, Louise Brown |
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35 | (4) |
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The McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice? |
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39 | (5) |
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44 | (5) |
| Cloning Embryos |
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Twinning Embryos Isn't Cloning |
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49 | (4) |
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Cloning Michael J. Fox's Embryos |
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53 | (4) |
| Cloning Humans |
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A Sheep Is Cloned, Tah Dah! |
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57 | (4) |
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61 | (3) |
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Please Don't Criminalize Human Cloning |
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64 | (6) |
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Why Science Fiction Distorts Views of Cloning |
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70 | (7) |
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If Parents Expect Bad Things from Cloning, Should We Ban It? |
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77 | (10) |
| Death and Dying |
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Do Not Go Slowly into That Dark Night: Mercy Killing in Holland |
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87 | (7) |
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Even with a Living Will, It's Tough to Die Well in America |
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94 | (6) |
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In Case of Terminal Illness, Call Your Lawyer, Not Your Physician |
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100 | (4) |
| Money, Ethics, and Medicine |
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Everyone Creates Soaring Medical Costs |
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104 | (4) |
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How to Say ``No More'' to Patients |
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108 | (3) |
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What the Clinton Medical Plan Should Have Emphasized |
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111 | (5) |
| Ethics and AIDS |
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Should Doctors Treat People with AIDS? |
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116 | (5) |
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How Politicization of Facts about AIDS Helped Kill People with AIDS |
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121 | (14) |
| General Bioethics |
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Don't Fear the Human Genome Project |
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135 | (6) |
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Children's Dissent to Research: A Minor Matter? |
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141 | (5) |
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Organ Donation Can Kill You |
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146 | (3) |
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Big Brother Is Watching: The Ethics of Cybermedicine |
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149 | (4) |
| Development of New Drugs |
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How to Get AIDS Drugs for Africans |
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153 | (3) |
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Indigenous Peoples Deserve Profits from Drugs from Their Lands |
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156 | (3) |
| Food and Ethics |
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Norman Borlaug: He Fed a Billion People but You Don't Know His Name |
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159 | (4) |
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Hating Biotechnology: A Tree with Deep Philosophical Roots |
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163 | (6) |
| Index |
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169 | (8) |
| About the Author |
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