Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 192
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7425-1437-9 • Paperback • October 2002 • $27.00 • (£19.99)
Part 1 Events in a Bioethicist's Life
Chapter 2 Medical Ethics is Whatever You Say It Is
Chapter 3 I Meet the AIDS Bigot
Chapter 4 Do We Really Value Human Life?
Chapter 5 Excercise is Dangerous to your Health
Part 6 On Bioethics and Bioethicists
Chapter 7 Bioethicists and the Media: Finicky Lovers
Chapter 8 Re-Creating Bioethics
Chapter 9 Bush's Bioethics Council: Dead On Arrival?
Chapter 10 On Reading Shakespeare to Get into Medical School
Part 11 Assisted Reproduction
Chapter 12 Happy Twentieth Birthday, Louise Brown
Chapter 13 McCaughey Septuplets: God's Will or Human Choice?
Chapter 14 Our New Idol, Life
Part 15 Cloning Embryos
Chapter 16 Twinning Embryos Isn't Cloning
Chapter 17 Cloning Michael J. Fox's Embryos
Part 18 Cloning Humans
Chapter 19 A Sheep is Cloned, Tah Dah!
Chapter 20 Ban Sexual Reproduction!
Chapter 21 Please Don't Criminalize Human Cloning
Chapter 22 Why Science Fiction Distorts Views of Cloning
Chapter 23 If Parents Expect Bad Things from Cloning, Should We Ban It?
Part 24 Death and Dying
Chapter 25 Do Not Go Slowly into that Dark Night: Mercy Killing in Holland
Chapter 26 Even with a Living Will, It's Tough to Die Well in America
Chapter 27 In Case of Terminal Illness, Call Your Lawyer, Not Your Physician
Part 28 Money, Ethics, and Medicine
Chapter 29 Everyone Creates Soaring Medical Costs
Chapter 30 How to Say 'No More' to Patients
Chapter 31 What the Clinton Medical Plan Should Have Emphasized
Part 32 Ethics and AIDS
Chapter 33 Should Doctors Treat People with AIDS?
Chapter 34 How Politicization of Facts about AIDS Helped Kill People With AIDS
Part 35 General Bioethics
Chapter 36 Don't Fear the Human Genome Project
Chapter 37 Children's Dissent to Research: A Minor Matter?
Chapter 38 Organ Donation Can Kill You
Chapter 39 Big Brother Is Watching: The Ethics of Cybermedicine
Part 40 Development of New Drugs
Chapter 41 How to Get AIDS Drugs for Africans
Chapter 42 Indigenous Peoples Deserve Profits from Drugs from Their Lands
Part 43 Food and Ethics
Chapter 44 Norman Borlaug: He Fed a Billion People: You Don't Know His Name
Chapter 45 Hating Biotechnology: A Tree with Deep Philosophical Roots
Greg Pence has done a masterful job of taking very complex bioethical issues and making them comprehensible to the average thoughtful person. His arguments are crystal clear, and he's not afraid to take on sacred cows. This will be a very valuable collection for the non-specialist who wants to understand the perplexing problems of modern bioethics.
— Bonnie Steinbock, chair, philosophy department, University at Albany/SUNY
Armed with an admirably clear style, a sharp eye for what's important, low tolerance for hype, demagoguery, or sloppiness with the facts, Pence provokes the reader to think clearly about the major bioethical issues of our time. Along the way, he reveals a refreshingly self-critical attitude, illustrating time and again that, in bioethics, experience is a hard teacher. He gives the test first and the lesson later. Experience has also made Pence a good teacher. He benefits us all by giving us genuinely worthwhile things to think about.
— Lance Stell, Charles Dana Professor of Philosophy and Medicine, Davidson College
Gregory Pence's lively and very readable essays are sure to provoke discussion and debate. From cloning and genetics to living wills and the value we place on human life, Pence never flinches from raising the tough issues, and letting his readers know what he thinks.
— Peter Singer, DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Combining clarity and remarkable thoughtfulness, Greg Pence has written a timely and accessible guide to some of the most vexing problems in bioethics.
— Kenneth Kipnis, University of Hawaii; visiting senior scholar, American Medical Association
Those interested in bioethics will find Pence's view an interesting contrast.
— Publishers Weekly
Listed in Ameican Scientist's Scientists' Bookshelf
— American Scientist
These short pieces range widely over topics including reproductive and therapeutic cloning, assisted reproduction, organ donation, assisted suicide, genetically modified foods, and public health care costs.
— Publishers Weekly