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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Tip-Toe When Walking on the Bleeding Edge | |
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| The Dangers of Creating Life in the Lab | |
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| Design: More Intelligent Every Day | |
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| "Shroom" Science: Safe and Effective? | |
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| A Robot Code of Ethics | |
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| No More Periods, Period | |
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| Search Me, Shape Me, Any Way You Want Me | |
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| A Bloody Mess | |
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| Stem Cells: The Goo of Life and the Debate of the Century | |
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| Everybody Lies | |
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| Lies, Damn Lies… and Scientific Misconduct | |
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| Conflict of Interest Means Business at NTH | |
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| While You're Here, How about a Spinal Tap? | |
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| Study Subject or Human Guinea Pig? | |
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| The New Tuskegee: Exploiting the Poor in Clinical Trials | |
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| Salt in the Wound: Will India Rise up Against the Oppression of Foreign Clinical Trials? | |
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| Dr. Hwang and the Bad Apple Theory of Scientific Misconduct | |
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| The Genome Isn't What It Used to Be | |
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| Becoming Genomic: Just What Does it Mean Anyway? | |
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| Enhancement Comes from Insecurity | |
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| Wearing Genes from the Gulf War | |
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| Reproduce at Your Own Peril | |
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| Tomorrow's Child: Making Babies in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| An Argument against Human Cloning | |
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| Two Genetic Moms: High-Tech Trouble or Double the Love? | |
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| Grave Robbing the Cradle | |
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| Baby Banking | |
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| Cash Strapped American Fertility Docs Cry Out for Mercy | |
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| Don't Sweat the Nano-Sized Stuff | |
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| "Nanoethics": The ELSI of Twenty-First-Century Bioethics? | |
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| The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea | |
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| The Merging of Man and Machine | |
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| My Eye's on You | |
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| The State Will Protect Your Health Right Up Until It Doesn't | |
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| Has the Spread of HPV Vaccine Marketing Conveyed Immunity to Common Sense? | |
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| Is the New Cigarette a Smoking Gun? Eclipse Unethical, Unregulated Research | |
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| "Universal" Healthcare: A Long Way Off | |
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| Newborn Screening with a Twist | |
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| HTV Testing Must Be Routine | |
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| Re-creating Flu: A Recipe for Disaster | |
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| Pandemic Influenza Requires Trust in Government Healthcare | |
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| A Hostile Environment for Environmental Protection Documents | |
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| To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine, Is That the Question? | |
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| "Do No Harm" Has Become "Care for Yourself " | |
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| Medicine Is Not a Steel Mill | |
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| Does Your Doctor Have Skeletons? Good Luck Finding Them | |
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| Medicine's Dirty Laundry | |
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| Dr. Koop: Meet Dr. Ethics | |
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| Organ Donation: Why Isn't There an App for That? | |
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| Docu-Medical Shows Lack Reality | |
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| You Aren't Dead Until Someone Tells You So | |
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| Redefining Retirement: Beyond Rest and Recreation | |
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| Medicare Is Going South: What Do We Owe the Aging? | |
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| The Fight to Die Well: We Will Expect More from Death Than Our Ancestors Did | |
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| The Case of the Body Snatchers | |
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| A Few Conclusions from the Terri Schiavo Case | |
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| living Wills Save Money? Dude, Did You Really Say That Out Loud? | |
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| The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Ambien | |
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| Eat Only Food for Thought | |
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| Fat in America | |
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| Breakfast for Thought | |
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| Want Fish? Ethics First, Please | |
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| Dying for Food | |
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| Beware of Ideologues and Demagogues | |
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| Bioethics for Christians, Corporate Whores, and Atheists | |
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| Pharma Owns Bioethics (and Other Fables) | |
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| The Kevorkianization of Cloning | |
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| Not in the Bush Leagues Anymore | |
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| Professor Hurlbut, Your 15 Minutes Are Up | |
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| The Heady Days of Proposition 71: Stem Cell Research in the California Sun | |
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| Conclusion: Move Slowly and Stay Cool | |
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| A Hot and Cold Running Genius | |
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| Science Must Slow Its Speed | |
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| Sources and Credits | |
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| Index | |