Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics | Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic
It is over 20 years since the birth of Louise Brown, the first test-tube baby. Photographs of chubby toddlers transforming into attractive women persuade us to accept the totality of the new reproductive technologies. Indeed the consulting room walls of renowned experts in the field, such as the much-televised Professors Robert Winston and Ian Craft, bristle with photographs of their young creations and grateful commissioning parents. And it is hard not to welcome a vision of this sort. But the reality behind these undeniably appealing images must give us pause.
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- Introduction
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Chapter 1: Should Physicians Ever Hasten Patients’ Deaths?
- Prolonging Life and Death: An Overview
- Physicians Should Not Provide Futile Treatment
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should Not Withhold Lifesaving Treatments
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Not Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Chapter 2: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Transplants?
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Chapter 3: Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical?
- Reproductive Technologies: An Overview
- Reproductive Technologies Are a Valid Medical Treatment
- Reproductive Technologies Can Be Consistent with Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Can Be an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic
- Some Reproductive Technologies Violate Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are a Harmful Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Chapter 4: What Ethics Should Guide Biomedical Research?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
- Copyright
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