Birth to death : science and bioethics / edited by David C. Thomasma and Thomasine Kushner.

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

xvi, 382 pages ; 24 cm

Genetics : a scientific sketch / Karen Dawson -- The genetic revolution / Daniel Callahan -- Genetic knowledge : some legal and ethical questions / Robert Schwartz -- The "ART" of medically assisted reproduction : an embryo is an embryo is an embryo / Michael E. McClure -- "O brave new world" : rationality in reproduction / Albert R. Jonsen -- Reproduction, abortion, and rights / Rosamond Rhodes -- The critically ill neonate / James M. Adams -- Medical technology and the child / Amnon Goldworth -- On caring for children / Mary B. Mahowald -- Clinical transplantation / Robert A. Sells -- Transplantation and ethics / Raanan Gillon -- Legalizing payment for transplantable cadaveric organs / James F. Blumstein -- Scientific advances in aging / John E. Morley -- Ethics and aging / George J. Agich -- People with dementia : a moral challenge / Stephen Post -- Personal dying and medical death / Steven Miles -- Stopping futile medical treatment : ethical issues / Nancy S. Jecker and Lawrence J. Schneiderman -- The sorcerer's broom : medicine's rampant technology / Eric J. Cassell -- Modern technology and the care of the dying / Ronald E. Cranford -- Care of the dying : from an ethics perspective / T. Patrick Hill -- Euthanasia and assisted suicide / Pieter Admiraal -- Physician-assisted suicide : progress or peril? / Christine K. Cassel -- "I will give no deadly drug" : why doctors must not kill / Leon R. Kass -- Voluntary euthanasia and other medical end-of-life decisions : doctors should be permitted to give death a helping hand / Helga Kuhse -- Humans as research subjects / Herman Wigodsky and Sue Keir Hoppe -- Research involving children as subjects / Robert J. Levine -- Future challenges of medical research review boards / Charles R. MacKay -- Animals in research / Franklin M. Loew -- Taking duties seriously : medical experimentation, animal rights, and moral incoherence / Daniel A. Moros -- Animal rights and social practices / Ted Benton -- The science of the environment / Andrew Pullin -- Environmental ethics / Andrew Dobson -- Human activity and environmental ethics / Andrew Jameton.

Includes bibliographical references and index