Smart mice, not-so-smart people
Subtitle: an interesting and amusing guide to bioethics
By: Arthur L. Caplan.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780742541719
Subjects: Medical ethics.
Description: An assortment of lighthearted and provocative essays about bioethics issues invites readers to formulate their own opinions about a wide variety of topics, from genetically modified foods and cloning to Mad Cow disease and advanced maternal age.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Is America going to hell?; title: General interest; title: End of life; title: Engineering ourselves; title: Engineering plants, microbes, and animals; title: Experimentation ethics; title: Health reform; title: Human cloning and stem cell research; title: Mapping ourselves; title: Reproduction; title: The state of science in the United States; title: Donation and transplantation of organs; title: Afterword: What is bioethics?