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Case Studies for Teaching
Death and Dying
[2/2, p.2]
Unique Cell Lines
(Jon Fiorella)
The Poisoning of Minamata
Genetic Screening
: Can having children be immoral?
Futile Medicine
: Can doctors ever refuse treatment?
breast cancer screening
personal privacy and medical databases
A Sampling of Other Issues
Nazi medical experiments
and Document F321 from the Nuremberg Council
The
Tuskegee syphilis experiments
---with resonances in
AIDS testing in Africa
? (with
further comments
)
---also possible
downstream effects
on medical research
Human Radiation Experiments
(U.S. Dept. of Energy) -- or peruse copy of the
Final Report (1996)
xenotransplantation
special
New Scientist
report on
cloning
--
... and
"Why Cloning Isn't as Scary as It Sounds"
issues in
assisted reproduction
implications of the
human genome project
risk assessment
(low-level exposure)
Resources
Center for Bioethics (U. Penn.)
****
medical ethics
readings online
Search
BIOETHICSLINE
index of online resources
Essays & Views
"
Cloning and Ewe?
"
More profiling principles of
informed consent
.
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