Smart Mice, Not So Smart People
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Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics

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eBook - ePub

Smart Mice, Not So Smart People

An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. ALSO BY ARTHUR L. CAPLAN
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION - Is America Going to Hell?
  6. Part I - General Interest
  7. Part II - End of Life
  8. Part III - Engineering Ourselves
  9. PART IV - Engineering Plants, Microbes, and Animals
  10. Part V - Experimentation Ethics
  11. Part VI - Health Reform
  12. Part VII - Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
  13. Part VIII - Mapping Ourselves
  14. Part IX - Reproduction
  15. Part X - The State of Science in the United States
  16. Part XI - Donation and Transplantation of Organs
  17. AFTERWORD - What Is Bioethics?
  18. About the Author