Smart Mice, Not So Smart People An

This assortment of pithy, provocative opinions on all things bioethical does more than simply give you a piece of the author's mind--it dares you to make up your own mind. In his typical tell-it-like-it-is style, America's leadig bioethicist Arthur Caplan provokes discussion on all issues at the center of the new genetics.

Arthur L. Caplan is Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction: Is America Going to Hell?

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PART I General Interest

Duty versus Conscience

3

(3)

The Ethics of Brain Imaging

6

(1)

Has Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Gone Too Far?

7

(1)

Ethical Lessons from the Flu Bug

8

(3)

The Colonel Kicks the Habit

11

(2)

Shame on Jeb Bush

13

(2)

Stark Raving Madness

15

(4)

PART II End of Life

Million Dollar Baby

19

(3)

Physician-Assisted Suicide in Oregon

22

(3)

Lessons from Terri Schiavo

25

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PART III Engineering Ourselves

Is Cosmetic Surgery Always Vain?

31

(2)

Face-off over Gene Foods

33

(2)

Heightened Questions about Growth Hormone

35

(1)

Brain Enhancement

36

(3)

Seasonale: Medicine for the Sake of Convenience?

39

(2)

Raffy and the Trouble with Steroids

41

(2)

When Steroids and Politics Mix

43

(2)

ANDi the Fluorescent Monkey

45

(4)

PART IV Engineering Plants, Microbes, and Animals

Are Genetically Modified Foods Fit for a Dog?

49

(2)

Miss Cleo, Meet "CC," the Kitty Clone

51

(2)

Whipping Up the Avian Flu

53

(2)

Should Scientists Create New Life?

55

(2)

Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People

57

(4)

PART V Experimentation Ethics

Testing Biological and Chemical Weapons: Any Volunteers?

61

(3)

Lawsuits Are Not the Answer

64

(2)

Commercial Concerns Should Take a Backseat to Public Awareness

66

(2)

Research Ban at Hopkins a Sign of Ethical Crisis

68

(3)

Research on the Newly Dead

71

(1)

Will We Ever Debunk Our Mythology about Human Subjects Research?

72

(5)

PART VI Health Reform

Cause Célèbre

77

(2)

Cheap Drugs Are Not the Answer to the African AIDS Crisis—Better Infrastructure Is

79

(2)

Humility or Hubris?

81

(2)

Fiddling While the Health System Burns

83

(2)

No Coverage for Kids a Moral Failure

85

(2)

New World Calls for New Health Care

87

(2)

Our Dying Health Care System

89

(2)

The Moral Tragedy of Chronic Illness

91

(6)

PART VII Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research

Cloning: Separating the Science from the Fiction

97

(3)

Cloning Flicks Offer a Moral Lesson

100

(2)

Embryonic Cloning Feat Points to Problems with Bush Policy

102

(3)

Korean Cloning Fraud

105

(3)

Media Bungled Clone Claim Coverage

108

(4)

Chutzpah

112

(4)

The End of the Embryonic Stem Cell Debate

116

(5)

PART VIII Mapping Ourselves

Ethics First, Then Genetics

121

(3)

His Genes, Our Genome

124

(2)

Let's Keep Our Genome in Perspective

126

(3)

"Darwin Vindicated!"

129

(2)

Ready for the Genomic Age?

131

(3)

Unethical Policies Undermine Value of Genetic Testing

134

(2)

Who Needs Bill Gates

136

(5)

PART IX Reproduction

Let's Talk about Sex

141

(3)

Model Eggs

144

(2)

Soldier's Sperm Offers Biological Insurance Policy

146

(2)

Talking Reproductive Responsibility

148

(2)

Test Tube Babies versus Clones

150

(3)

The Problem with "Embryo Adoption"

153

(3)

Are You Ever Too Old to Have a Baby?

156

(5)

PART X The State of Science in the United States

Hullabaloo over MMR Risk Misses the Point

161

(2)

If Science Becomes Politicized, Where Do We Go for Truth?

163

(2)

Is Biomedical Research Too Dangerous to Pursue?

165

(3)

Misusing the Nazi Analogy

168

(2)

How the President's Council on Bioethics Lost Its Credibility

170

(4)

Pray It Ain't So

174

(2)

Who Wins When Religion Squares Off against Science?

176

(4)

Why Are These Nuts Testifying?

180

(5)

PART XI Donation and Transplantation of Organs

About Face

185

(3)

Restricting Blood Donations or Mad Cow the Deadlier Threat?

188

(2)

Jumping the Line

190

(2)

www.matchingdonors.com

192

(2)

Misguided Effort to Ease the Organ Shortage

194

(3)

No Excuse for Blood Donor Bias

197

(2)

Sperm Transplants Should Spur Debate

199

(2)

The Return of Fetal Tissue Transplants

201

(2)

Afterword: What Is Bioethics?

203

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About the Author

210

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