Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

Arthur L. Caplan

doi:10.5771/9781461734055

Summary

What do you think about cloning, stem cell research, brain enhancement, or doing experiments on newly dead patients? Read Smart Mice, Not so Smart People and you'll know what Art Caplan thinks. But this assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind—it also invites and even dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical style, Caplan—one of the most sought-after bioethicists of our time—provokes discussion on issues at the center of the new genetics, cloning in the laboratory and in the media, stem cell research, experiments on human subjects, blood donation and organ transplantation, and healthcare delivery. Are new developments in these areas good or bad? As an engaged citizen in a democratic society, it is your responsibility to decide. This book will help you do it.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2006
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-4171-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3405-5
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 210
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Introduction: Is America Going to Hell? No access
1. Duty versus Conscience No access
2. The Ethics of Brain Imaging No access
3. Has Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Gone Too Far? No access
4. Ethical Lessons from the Flu Bug No access
5. The Colonel Kicks the Habit No access
6. Shame on Jeb Bush No access
7. Stark Raving Madness No access
1. Million Dollar Baby No access
2. Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon No access
3. Lessons from Terri Schiavo No access
1. Is Cosmetic Surgery Always Vain? No access
2. Face-off over Gene Foods No access
3. Heightened Questions about Growth Hormone No access
4. Brain Enhancement No access
5. Seasonale: Medicine for the Sake of Convenience? No access
6. Raffy and the Trouble with Steroids No access
7. When Steroids and Politics Mix No access
8. ANDi the Fluorescent Monkey No access
1. Are Genetically Modified Foods Fit for a Dog? No access
2. Miss Cleo, Meet "CC," the Kitty Clone No access
3. Whipping Up the Avian Flu No access
4. Should Scientists Create New Life? No access
5. Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People No access
1. Testing Biological and Chemical Weapons: Any Volunteers? No access
2. Lawsuits Are Not the Answer No access
3. Commercial Concerns Should Take a Backseat to Public Awareness No access
4. Research Ban at Hopkins a Sign of Ethical Crisis No access
5. Research on the Newly Dead No access
6. Will We Ever Debunk Our Mythology about Human Subjects Research? No access
1. Cause Célèbre No access
2. Cheap Drugs Are Not the Answer to the African AIDS Crisis-Better Infrastructure Is No access
3. Humility or Hubris? No access
4. Fiddling While the Health System Burns No access
5. No Coverage for Kids a Moral Failure No access
6. New World Calls for New Health Care No access
7. Our Dying Health Care System No access
8. The Moral Tragedy of Chronic Illness No access
1. Cloning: Separating the Science from the Fiction No access
2. Cloning Flicks Offer a Moral Lesson No access
3. Embryonic Cloning Feat Points to Problems with Bush Policy No access
4. Korean Cloning Fraud No access
5. Media Bungled Clone Claim Coverage No access
6. Chutzpah No access
7. The End of the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate No access
1. Ethics First, Then Genetics No access
2. His Genes, Our Genome No access
3. Let's Keep Our Genome in Perspective No access
4. "Darwin Vindicated!" No access
5. Ready for the Genomic Age? No access
6. Unethical Policies Undermine Value of Genetic Testing No access
7. Who Needs Bill Gates? No access
1. Let's Talk about Sex No access
2. Model Eggs No access
3. Soldier's Sperm Offers Biological Insurance Policy No access
4. Talking Reproductive Responsibility No access
5. Test Tube Babies versus Clones No access
6. The Problem with "Embryo Adoption" No access
7. Are You Ever Too Old to Have a Baby? No access
1. Hullabaloo over MMR Risk Misses the Point No access
2. If Science Becomes Politicized, Where Do We Go for Truth? No access
3. Is Biomedical Research Too Dangerous to Pursue? No access
4. Misusing the Nazi Analogy No access
5. How the President's Council on Bioethics Lost Its Credibility No access
6. Pray It Ain't So No access
7. Who Wins When Religion Squares Off against Science? No access
8. Why Are These Nuts Testifying? No access
1. About Face No access
2. Restricting Blood Donations or Mad Cow the Deadlier Threat? No access
3. Jumping the Line No access
4. www.matchingdonors.com No access
5. Misguided Effort to Ease the Organ Shortage No access
6. No Excuse for Blood Donor Bias No access
7. Sperm Transplants Should Spur Debate No access
8. The Return of Fetal Tissue Transplants No access
Afterword: What Is Bioethics? No access Pages 203 - 209
About the Author No access Pages 210 - 210