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Chapters 2-8 open with an Introduction and include References and Further Reading, an Article List, and Discussion Questions for the Readings. | |
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Bioethics: An Introduction to the Discipline | |
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What Is Bioethics? | |
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Bioethics: Theory and Method | |
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Religion and Bioethics | |
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Bioethics Comes of Age: An Expanding Moral Framework and Vocabulary | |
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References and Further Reading | |
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Doctors and Patients | |
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The Profession of Medicine | |
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""I Swear by Apollo"": On Taking the Hippocratic Oath,"" | |
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""Hippocratic Oath, Modern Version,"" | |
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""Principles of Medical Ethics,"" American Medical Association | |
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""Medical Professionalism in Society,"" | |
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The Obligations of Doctors to Their Patients | |
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""Fundamental Elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship,"" American Medical Association | |
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""Respect for Autonomy,"" | |
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""The Meaning and Justification of Informed Consent,"" | |
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""A Framework of Standards for Surrogate Decision Making,"" | |
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""Truth Telling in Medicine: The Confucian View,"" | |
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""Patient Confidentiality,"" American Medical Association | |
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""A Defense of Unqualified Medical Confidentiality,"" | |
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Responsibilities of Patients | |
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""Patient Responsibilities,"" American Medical Association | |
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""The Patient's Work,"" Leonard C. Groopman | |
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""Limits on Patient Responsibility,"" | |
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Doctors and Society | |
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""Cosmetic Surgery and the Internal Morality of Medicine,"" | |
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""When Doctors Go to War,"" | |
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""Shifting Sands,"" | |
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Cases | |
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The White Coat | |
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Can a Killer Be a Doctor? | |
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Vaccine Skeptics Refuse to Inoculate Children | |
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Should Medical Students Believe in Evolution? The Case of Professor Dini | |
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Pillow Angel | |
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College Student Requests Modafinil | |
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At the End of Life | |
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Defining Death | |
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""The Whole-Brain Concept of Death Remains Optimum Public Policy,"" | |
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""The Conscience Clause"": How Much Individual Choice in Defining Death Can Our Society Tolerate? | |
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How Much Treatment? | |
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""The Case for Mortality,"" | |
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""Does Professional Autonomy Protect Medical Futility Judgments?"" | |
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Rejecting Treatment | |
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""Autonomy, Wellbeing, and the Case of the Refusing Patient,"" | |
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""The Severely Demented, Minimally Functional Patient: An Ethical Analysis,"" | |
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""Extreme Prematurity and Parental Rights After Baby Doe,"" | |
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""Has the Emphasis on Autonomy Gone Too Far?"" Insights from Dostoevsky on Parental Decisionmaking in the NICU | |
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""Appropriate Use of Artificial Nutrition and Hydration"": Fundamental Principles and Recommendations | |
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""Assisted Nutrition and Hydration and the Catholic Tradition,"" | |
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Hastening Death | |
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""The Devil's Choice: Re-Thinking Law, Ethics, and Symptom Relief in Palliative Care,"" | |
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""Voluntary Euthanasia"": A Utilitarian Perspective | |
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""End of Life: The Buddhist View,"" | |
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""Gender, Feminism, and Death"": Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia | |
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""A Moral Defense of Oregon's Physician-Assisted Suicide Law,"" | |
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Cases | |
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Not Dead Yet--Part I | |
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Not Dead Yet--Part II (or There Is Cryonics in Baseball) | |
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Slow Medicine | |
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Is There Anybody in There? | |
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A Patient's Rights Act? The Limits of Patient Autonomy in Israel | |
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The Texas Advance Directives Act | |
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Don't Mess with Texas: Cancer, Custody, and Katie | |
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Not Dead Yet--Part III | |
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The Groningen Protocol--Euthanasia for Newborns | |
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A Friend in Need | |
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At the Beginnings of Life | |
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Abortion | |
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""A Defense of Abortion,"" | |
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""Abortion and the Beginning and End of Human Life,"" | |
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""Feminist Discourse on Sex Screening and Selective Abortion of Female Foetuses,"" | |
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""Could Artificial Wombs End the Abortion Debate?"" | |
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""The Limits of Conscientious Objection--May Pharmacists Refuse to Fill Prescriptions for Emergency Contraception?"" | |
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Maternal-Fetal Relations | |
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""Distinguishing Features of Women's Health Care,"" | |
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""A Realistic Approach to Maternal-Fetal Conflict,"" | |
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Reproductive Technology | |
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""What Are Families For? Getting to an Ethics of Reproductive Technology,"" | |
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""Whose Bodies? Which Selves?"" Appeals to Embodiment in Assessments of Reproductive Technology | |
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""Reproductive Gifts and Gift Giving: The Altruistic Woman,"" | |
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""Two Questions About Surrogacy and Exploitation,"" | |
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Human Cloning | |
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""Preventing A Brave New World: Why We Should Ban Cloning Now,"" | |
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""Human Reproductive Cloning"": A Look at the Arguments Against It and a Rejection of Most of Them | |
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Cases | |
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Measure for Measure | |
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Where the Boys Are | |
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What's Plan C? Pharmacist Refusal to Distribute Plan B | |
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Safe in the Womb? | |
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McKnight v. South Carolina | |
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Amber Alert | |
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A Person, No Matter How Small? | |
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Veto Power | |
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Surrogacy Specialists of America (SSA) | |
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Free to Be Me (Again?) | |
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Distributing and Procuring Health Care Resources | |
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Access to Health Care | |
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""Justice, Health, and Healthcare,"" | |
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""Rights to Health Care, Social Justice, and Fairness in Health Care Allocations: Frustrations in the Face of Finitude,"" | |
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""A Conservative Case for Universal Access to Health Care,"" | |
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""Illegal Immigrants, Health Care, and Social Responsibility,"" | |
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Rationing | |
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""Should Physicians Be Gatekeepers of Medical Resources?"" | |
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""Rationing in the Intensive Care Unit,"" | |
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Organizational Ethics | |
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""Justice and Managed Care"": Four Principles for the Just Allocation of Health Care Resources,"" | |
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""Fulfilling Institutional Responsibilities in Health Care: Organizational Ethics and the Role of Mission Discernment,"" | |
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Organ Transplantation | |
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""Responsibility, Alcoholism, and Liver Transplantation,"" | |
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""Recovery of Transplantable Organs After Cardiac or Circulatory Death: Transforming the Paradigm for the Ethics of Organ Donation,"" | |
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""Why We Are Not Allowed to Sell That Which We Are Encouraged to Donate,"" | |
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""Presumed Consent, Autonomy, and Organ Donation,"" | |
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""An 'Opting in' Paradigm for Kidney Transplantation,"" | |
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Cases | |
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The Health of Nations | |
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The ""Commonhealth"" of Massachusetts | |
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Should Illegal Immigrants Have Access to Health Care? | |
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Blue Cross Seeks Physician Informants | |
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Age-Based Rationing | |
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Living the Mission | |
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Early Harvest--Removing Organs After Cardiac Death | |
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Presumed Consent and Organ Donation | |
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Pat Summerall's New Liver | |
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Matchmakers | |
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Biomedical Research | |
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Research on Human Subjects | |
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""The Nuremburg Code"" | |
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""The Belmont Report"": Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Subjects of Research, The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research | |
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""Declaration of Helsinki"": Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, World Medical Association | |
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""Making Research a Requirement of Treatment"": Why We Should Sometimes Let Doctors Pressure Patients to Participate in Research | |
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""Guinea-Pigging,"" | |
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""Justice and the Human Development Approach to International Research,"" Alex John London | |
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Stem Cell and Cloning Research | |
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""Monitoring Stem Cell Research"": Introduction, President's Council on Bioethics | |
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""Ethical Issues in Human Stem Cell Research"": Vol. 3, Religious Perspectives, National Bioethics Advisory Commission | |
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""Research with Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Ethical Considerations,"" Geron Ethics Advisory Board: Karen Lebacoz (CHAIR) | |
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Animals as Research Subjects (or Objects) | |
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""The Ethics of Animal Research: What Are the Prospects for Agreement?"" | |
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""International Guiding Principles for Biomedical Research Involving Animals (1985),"" Council for International Organization of Medical Sciences | |
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""Guidelines for the Care and Use of Mammals in Neuroscience and Behavioral Research,"" National Research Council | |
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Cases | |
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Medicare Requires Heart Patients to Enlist in Research | |
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Empathic Mice | |
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Orphan Diseases | |
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In Defense of Animals (IDA) Urges NIH to Halt Animal Nicotine Experiments | |
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Pharmacological Research on Pregnant Women | |
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Stem Cell Research--""Dead"" Embryos? | |
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Dying Patients and the Right to Try Experimental Drugs | |
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Surgeon as Animal Rights Warrior | |
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Great Ape Protection Act | |
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Genetics, Biotechnology, and Posthuman Possibilities | |
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Technological Manipulations and Posthuman Futures | |
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""Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness: An Introduction,"" President's Council on Bioethics | |
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""The Case Against Perfection,"" | |
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""Gene Therapies and the Pursuit of a Better Human,"" | |
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""Jewish Reflections on Genetic Enhancement,"" | |
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""Transhumanist Values,"" | |
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Enhancing the Mind | |
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""Treatment, Enhancement, and the Ethics of Neurotherapeutics,"" | |
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""Memory and Happiness,"" President's Council on Bioethics | |
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Genetics and Future Children | |
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""Genetic Dilemmas and the Child's Right to an Open Future,"" | |
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""Extending Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis: Medical and Non-Medical Uses,"" | |
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Cases | |
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DNAdirect.com: Direct-to-Consumer Marketing of Genetic Tests | |
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Playing God in the West, but Not in the East | |
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Myriad Genetics and the BRCA-2 Gene | |
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Mo Money | |
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Consumer Eugenics | |
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Williams Syndrome and PGD | |
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Better Brains Through ""Chemistry"" | |
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Therapeutic Forgetting | |
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Soul Catcher 2025 | |
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Be More Than You Can Be | |
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The Environmental Turn in Bioethics | |
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Redefining Bioethics, Redefining Health | |
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""Health is Membership,"" | |
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""Toward an Ecological View of Health: An Imperative for the Twenty-First Century,"" | |
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""New Ways of Thinking About Bioethics,"" | |
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Health and the Environment | |
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""Global Environmental Change and Health:"" Impacts, Inequalities, and the Health Sector | |
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""Embedded in Nature"": Human Health and Biodiversity"" | |
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Sustainable Health Care | |
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""Sustainable Health Care and Emerging Ethical Responsibilities,"" | |
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""Medicine After Oil"": It Could Be Distributed a Lot More Democratically | |
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""Deep Ecology and End-of-Life Care,"" | |
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""Declaration of Professional Responsibility"": Medicine's Social Contract with Humanity, American Medical Association | |
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""Stewardship of the Environment: Policy H-135.973,"" American Medical Association | |
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Cases | |
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Malaria and DDT | |
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Physicians and the Environmental Imperative | |
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Population Connection | |
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Sustainable Trials | |
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Asthma Inhalers and Ozone | |
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Mussels on Prozac | |
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Index | |