Presents approximately 150 primary source documents, such as speeches, legislation, memoirs, newspaper articles, and interviews, related to medicine, health, and bioethics between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
Examines clinical drug trials in developing countries of Africa and Asia, discussing the pharmaceutical industry's motivation to test on poor people, the treatment of patients, and ethical issues involved; and providing what the author believes to be solutions to the problem.
Presents a selection of primary source documents that provide a variety of perspectives on issues of medical ethics, discussing organ transplants, assisted suicide, reproductive technologies, and other topics.
Presents opposing viewpoints on biomedical ethics issues such as genetic engineering, organ transplants, medical use of fetal tissue, and reproductive technology.
Describes the process of conception; the causes of infertility; and reproductive methods available to infertile couples, such as in vitro fertilization and intrauterine insemination; and discusses the ethical debate surrounding assisted reproduction, presenting the various arguments for and against.
Thirteen essays present opposing arguments on issues regarding organ donation and transplants, including the policy of presumed consent, compensation for donation, cloning humans, tissue engineering, animal-to-human transplants, and artificial organs.
