All Posts Tagged With: "bioethics"
Your Money and Your Life: The Price of Universal Health Care
Although often recognized as sacred, human life has not been considered the top priority in the hierarchy of values. Human beings have willingly sacrificed life to preserve honor or virtue, to defend the faith or the nation, or to protect family or the family’s livelihood (property). Civilized nations have, however, generally recognized the right to [...]
1Dec2006 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Nazi War on Cancer
This is a deeply disturbing book for it describes in a good light what the author calls the “lesser-known ‘flipside’ of fascism–the side that gave us struggles against smoking, campaigns for cleaner food and water, for exercise and preventive medicine.” The Nazi “accomplishments” include the establishment of medical registries (that is, databases) and medical surveillance, [...]
1Oct2000 | Miguel A. Faria Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedBioethics Opportunities, Risks, and Ethics: The Privatization of Cancer Research
Bioethics burst onto the scene last decade. Its mission: to analyze and judge the moral aspects of clinical and research medicine. Dr. Robert K. Oldham argues that ethical conduct “is simply a matter of doing that which is right.” In Bioethics, he sets out to challenge the legitimacy of his most vocal critics: medicine’s “mainstream” [...]
1Feb1996 | Jeffrey A. Singer | 0 comments | Continued-
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