Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
In this important new book Gregory E. Pence looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine including gene therapy to produce 'brave new babies', cloning, human eggs and embryos for sale and experiments on human embryos. Pence argues that the conservatism of the medical establishment, the bioethics community, and the public at large has created shibboleths that impede improvements in our quality of life.
Synopsis
In this book the author looks at issues on the frontiers of medicine.
Table of 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.