medical ethics

A collection of articles that consider some of the major questions of bioethics, examining topics in the categories of animals, death and dying, environment, and fertility and reproduction.

Seventeen-year-old Jenna Angeline Fox wakes from a long coma with no memory of who she is, and is sent home with her mother and inexplicably hostile grandmother where hours of video recordings of her childhood help spark her memories and send her on a horrifying quest to learn what really happened to her.

Opposing viewpoints create a running debate on such issues as genetic engineering, organ transplants, reproductive technology, research on animals, and ethical guidelines in health care.

Before he can start a life with Jenna, seventeen-year-old Locke, who was brought back to life in a newly bioengineered body after an accident destroyed his body 260 years ago, must do a favor for the resistance movement opposing the nightmarish medical technology.

In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.

Examines the debate over whether or not people have the right to choose to die, looking at past perspectives on suicide and euthanasia, and discussing related legal issues.

Examines the constraints that have been imposed on women over the last two centuries in the name of science, discussing how pseudoscience has been used to tell women how to live since the early nineteenth century.

Contains approximately 150 alphabetically arranged entries that provide definitions of terms and phrases involved in the bioethics/health care debates.

Contains thirty essays by various authors that present opposing views on the ethics of biomedical practices in the areas of human cloning, organ donations, reproductive technologies, and genetic research.