Beginning Life Contemporary Issues in Science 1st Edition by Miriam Boleyn Fitzgerald ISBN 978-0816062102 0816062102
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ISBN 10: 0816062102
ISBN 13: 978-0816062102
Author: Miriam Boleyn-Fitzgerald
Medical innovation requires research, and research depends on patients and healthy volunteers willing to assume risks. Considering the ethical decisions medical practitioners must face, Beginning Life takes a close look at several bold medical innovations that have created new lives and saved others. With detailed information on assisted reproductive technologies like in vitro fertilization (IVF) and surrogacy, genetic testing and therapy, stem cells and therapeutic cloning, and intensive care techniques for severely premature newborns, this new resource highlights key ethical principles and their application to the everyday practice of medicine.
Table of contents:
1. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES IN GENETIC AND REPRODUCTIVE RESEARCH
Louise Brown: The First Test-Tube Baby
The Belmont Report: Ethical Principles in Medical Research
The Problem of Scope
Patenting Life: The Commercial Ownership of Genes and Organisms
In Vitro Fertilization Today
Summary
2. CONTROVERSIES IN ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
ART and Multiple Births: The McCaughey Septuplets Maternal and Infant Health Risks of Multiple Births Surrogate Motherhood
Selective Reduction: When Surrogates and Intended Parents Disagree
Surrogacy Across National Borders
Summary
3. EUGENICS, GENETIC TESTING, AND DESIGNER BABIES
Genetic Knowledge, Genetic Control
Eugenics as Social Policy: The Carrie Buck Story
Contemporary Liberal Eugenics
Infant Screening for Treatable Conditions
Genetic Discrimination and Privacy
Screening Children and Adults for Incurable Diseases
Summary
4. GENE THERAPY AND ENHANCEMENT
What Is Gene Therapy?
The Death of Jesse Gelsinger
Status of Gene Therapy Research
Technical Limitations and Ethical Concerns
The Transhumanist Movement
Summary
5. STEM CELLS AND THERAPEUTIC CLONING
Types of Stem Cells
Turning Adult Cells “Embryonic”
Patchwork Policies on Stem Cell Research
Celebrities Speak Out on Both Sides of the Debate
Embryonic Stem Cells: A Cure for Age-Related Blindness?
Summary
6. ABORTION AND EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION
Before Abortion Was Legal:
The Sherri Finkbine Story
Perspectives on Abortion
Human-Animal Hybrids and the Right to Life
Emergency Contraception
When Abortion Became Legal: Roe v. Wade
The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Upheld:
Gonzales v. Carhart
Summary
7. REPRODUCTIVE CLONING AND ECTOGENESIS
Dolly: The First Animal Cloned from an Adult
Animal Cloning
Cloning Humans?
Ectogenesis: Growing Babies Outside the Womb
Ectogenesis and the Abortion Debate
Summary
8. INFANTS
Baby Doe and the Treatment of Impaired Infants
Extreme Prematurity
Baby Messenger and Aggressive Treatment of Premature Newborns
Denmark’s Required Minimum Gestational Age
Summary
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