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Biology has been advancing with explosive pace over the last few years and in so doing has raised a host of ethical issues. This book, aimed at the general reader, reviews the major advances of recent years in biology and medicine and explores their ethical implications. From birth to death the reader is taken on a tour of human biology - covering genetics, reproduction, development, transplantation, aging, dying and also the use of animals in research and the impact of human populations on this planet. In each chapter there is a sketch of a field's most recent scientific advances, combined with discussions of the ethical and moral principles and implications for social frameworks and public policy raised by those advances. Anybody interested or concerned about the ethical dilemmas caused by advances in science and medicine should read this book.

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• Part I Introduction
• Part II Genetics
• 1 Genetics: a scientific sketch
• 2 The genetic revolution
• 3 Genetic knowledge: some legal and ethical questions
• Part III Reproductive Technologies
• 4 The 'Art' of medically-assisted reproduction: an embryo is an embryo is an embryo
• 5 'O brave new world': rationality in reproduction
• 6 Reproduction, abortion and rights
• Part IV Children and Women in Health Care
• 7 The critically ill neonate
• 8 Medical technology and the child
• 9 On caring for children
• Part V Transpantation
• 10 Clinical transplantation
• 11 Transplantation and ethics
• 12 Legalizing payment for transplantable cadaveric organs
• 13
• Part VI Aging
• 14 Scientific advances in aging
• 15 Ethics and aging
• 16 People with dementia: a moral challenge
• Part VII Prolonging Life/Death
• 17 Personal dying and medical death
• 18 Stopping futile medical treatment: ethical issues
• 19 The sorcerer's broom: medicine's rampant technology
• Part VIII Care of the Dying
• 20 Modern technology and care of the dying
• 21 Care of the dying from an ethics perspective
• Part IX Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
• 22 Euthanasia and assisted suicide
• 23 Physician- sssisted suicide: progress or peril?
• 24 'I will give no deadly drug': why doctors must not kill
• 25 Voluntary euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions: doctors should be permitted to give death a helping hand
• Part X Humans as Research Subjects
• 26 Humans as research subjects
• 27 Research involving children as subjects
• 28 Future challenges of medical research review boards
• Part XI Using Animals in Research
• 29 Animals in research
• 30 Taking duties seriously: medical experimentation, animal rights and moral incoherence
• 31 Animal rights and social practices
• Part XII The Environment
• 32 The science of the environment
• 33 Environmental ethics
• 34 Human activity and environment ethics
• Part XIII Postscript

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Scientific discoveries, and the new technologies that they spawn, continue to confront health professionals and their patients with situations for which ethical consensus is either poorly developed or nonexistent. Analyses of ethical quandaries and development of appropriate guidelines for resolving dilemmas in clinical ethics require an understanding of both the science/technology and relevant moral philosophy. In this volume, the editors explore a large number of current ethical issues--first by presenting a brief nontechnical exploration of the underlying science and its clinical applications (for example, genetics, neonatology, end-of-life interventions, organ transplants, reproductive technologies, etc.). Essays by philosophers/ethicists and clinical ethicists address these issues from a moral and clinical perspective. Both the science and the ethics are for the most part presented concisely, clearly, and cogently. Readers interested in a thorough introduction to current ethical issues in health care will be well served. Although appealing to more sophisticated lay readers, this book is particularly suitable as a resource for undergraduate, graduate, and two-year technical program students. L. A. Crandall University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign