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 "One of my mentors in bioethics, V. R. Potter, was the first to coin the term.9 Potter identified the need for an interdisciplinary effort to understand the role and responsibilities of the human species for the planet, and to head off ethical transgressions that might be engendered by the profit motive in medicine. I started my career as a professor of bioethics studying and writing on such issues as genetic testing, informed consent in patients with cognitive impairment, and end-of-life care. I became so interested that I went on to earn a master's degree from my current university."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "The national School Lunch Program is a major focus of the current Midwest bioethics 2006 (www.bioethics2006.org) conference in Chicago. This culminates in a Tuesday evening session on the critical need for certified organic milk and meat to replace the current dangerous staples. The conference coincides with the national Biotechnology Industry Organization, which aggressively promotes the industrialization of the nation's food supply.
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D."- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) "Nuffield Council on bioethics 28 Bedford Square London WCIB 3EG 44(0) 171-681-9625 bioethics@nuffieldfoundation.org Stichting Consument en Biotechnologie Postbus 1000 NL - 2500 BA Den Haag Netherlands hdvriend@consumentenbond.nl Vier Pfoten (Four Paws) Sechshauserstr. 48 1150 Vienna Austria 431-895-0202-23 office@vier-pfoten." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
 "The] only thing imaging can tell you is whether you have a brain tumor" or some other gross neurological damage, said Paul Root Wolpe of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for bioethics.75 The unfortunate fact remains that the most accurate way of gauging the thoughts and feelings of others is simply by asking people what they are thinking and feeling."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "Here's the problem, in one stroke: Arthur Caplan, director of the University of Pennsylvania Center for bioethics, has publicly advised doctors not to take gifts from Big Pharma. He self-righteously proclaimed in January 2001: "The more you yield to economics, the more you're falling to a business model that undercuts arguments for professionalism." Sounds good, but there's a problem with Caplan's moral high horse: he himself consults for the drug and biotech industries and runs a center funded in part by Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Schering-Plough." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "Bonnie and David made me a personalized mandala I call "Deep Bioethics"; it is made largely from variegated rocks I have collected from around the world. Bonnie also created an image for her mother, who has some memory impairment, and joined it with soothing music, which together, help calm her mother's anxiety. It is more than conceivable to think that mandalas could potentially have therapeutic benefit, especially for those in the later stages of dementia who are more inclined to agitation. You can learn more about mandalas atwww.gaiastarworld.com/index.html." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "However, I soon grew disenchanted by bioethics when I began to see how co-opted it had become by the medical profession, and how uncritical it was of the malfeasance and questionable conduct of current medical practice. Bioethicists can be legitimate watchdogs for the public, but they must commit themselves to tackling the salient issues that are affecting the practice of medicine and corroding our health-care system. the power of stories There's an old story told about three blind men who came upon an elephant in India." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "Sid Katz, a geriatrician and scholar of quality of life activity, and Van Rensselaer Potter, the inventor of bioethics, deserve special mention as wise elders. Oliver Sacks, Rachel Remen, and Rita Charon are inspiring examples of those who appreciate 283 the power of narrative in its fullest extent. Cathy Greenblatt and Ed Kashi and Julie Winocur encouraged Peter's photographic eye. Anne Basting helped him move onto the stage more effectively. Rick Moody got his criticisms of science a bit more tempered while at the same time keeping him grounded in the sky." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "In an article published in the American Journal of bioethics titled "All Gifts Large and Small: Toward an Understanding of the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Industry Gift Giving," the authors point out that "food, flattery, and friendship are all powerful tools of persuasion, particularly when combined." It is very difficult to maintain an objective perspective about a particular drug—much less take an opposing point of view—while eating a delicious salmon and wild rice lunch provided by attractive and friendly marketing folks."- John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) |
 "His views recast ancient animistic-religious ideas about the "unity of life" as utilitarian bioethics. As for courage, that is a
virtue needed by writers who oppose the prevailing liberal-statist style in bioethics, not lead and support it as Singer does.
In what follows, I cite some criticism of Singer that I share."- Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
 "It dispatched Louis Lasagna, a famed clinical researcher and writer of essays on bioethics, to downplay the dangers of Wyeth's drug Redux, its new version of fenfluramine, when an FDA committee was considering whether or not to approve the drug in 1996. According to Mundy, George Blackburn, a Harvard researcher and chairman of the Committee on Nutrition for the Massachusetts Medical Society, was instrumental in getting the state of Massachusetts to lift a ban on fen-phen after cases of pulmonary hypertension surfaced."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "DeCamp Professor of bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Australia. Why do I consider his views—which I think are mistaken and wicked—in this volume? I do so because he is a prominent figure in contemporary bioethics and because his "preference utilitarian perspective" is a striking example of the contemporary debauchment of morality and politics by means of the medicalization of ethics." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
 "DVM, Eating with Conscience: The bioethics of Food, Troutdale, Oregon: NewSage Press, 1997.
Fox, M.W., DVM, Bring Life to Ethics; Global bioethics for a Humane Society, New York, NewYork: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Goldstein, M., DVM, The Nature of Animal Healing, NewYork, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Houston, L, Nobody's Best Friend, Chester, New Jersey: MCE Press, 1998.
Merwick, K., People Food for Dogs, Seattle, Washington: Elfin Cove Press,
Messonnier, S."- Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
 "It dispatched Louis Lasagna, a famed clinical researcher and writer of essays on bioethics, to downplay the dangers of Wyeth's drug Redux, its new version of fenfluramine, when an FDA committee was considering whether or not to approve the drug in 1996. According to Mundy, George Blackburn, a Harvard researcher and chairman of the Committee on Nutrition for the Massachusetts Medical Society, was instrumental in getting the state of Massachusetts to lift a ban on fen-phen after cases of pulmonary hypertension surfaced."- Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) |
| "National School Lunches: Unsafe At Any Eating
Get the Facts on April 11th, bioethics Chicago Conference
On April 6, a bipartisan Congressional group, with strong support in both Houses, announced plans to introduce legislation amending the National School Lunch Act. This would prohibit the sale in schools of sugary or fatty junk foods, notably soft drinks and French fries.
This initiative officially endorses longstanding efforts by many school districts to provide only healthy foods, and hopefully reduce the growing incidence of childhood obesity and related diseases." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
 "In 2003 the President's Council on bioethics dedicated an entire session to examining medicalization (Kass et al., 2003). Less attention has been given to medicalization in the news, although the number of popular news references to medicalization has increased in the past couple of years. In 2005, for instance, the Seattle Times published a five-part investigative series entitled "Suddenly Sick" that focused on the promotion of illness categories and medicalization (Kelleher and Wilson, 2005)."- Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) "Similar polls demonstrate that individuals who believe in the genetic or biological origins of homosexuality are also more likely to support gay civil rights (Nuffield Council on bioethics, 2002: 99). D'Emilio contends that there was a "rush, on the part of almost everyone except the most extremely homophobic elements of our society, to embrace the 'born gay' view of sexual identity" (2002:154). The born-gay explanation became popular because it fits within the current rhetoric of gay identity politics. Within the U.S." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "After Singer's controversial appointment to an endowed chair of bioethics at Princeton in 1999, Nat Hentoff, the noted secular civil libertarian, wrote:
But some of us wondered why Princeton chose this renowned apostle of infanticide and certain forms of euthanasia for so influential an endowed seat at, of all places, the university's Center for Human Values. Professor Singer often claims that his views have been misquoted, so I am quoting directly from his books. From "Practical Ethics": "Human babies are not born self-aware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
 "Carl Elliott at the University of Minnesota Center for bioethics summarized the growing trend for drug companies to support academic centers for bioethics. Such ties mute criticism of the drug companies, in Elliott's view.38
Furthermore, noninstitutional review boards (NIRB's) are increasingly replacing academic institutional review boards in overseeing clinical research. These boards must review and approve any research involving human subjects before the research can begin."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
| "DVM, Bring Life to Ethics; Global bioethics for a Humane Society, New York, NewYork: State University of New York Press, 2001.
Goldstein, M., DVM, The Nature of Animal Healing, NewYork, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Houston, L, Nobody's Best Friend, Chester, New Jersey: MCE Press, 1998.
Merwick, K., People Food for Dogs, Seattle, Washington: Elfin Cove Press,
Messonnier, S., DVM, The Allergy Solution for Dogs: Natural and Conventional Therapies to Ease Discomfort and Enhance Your Dog's Quality of Life, Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 2000.
Messonnier, S." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Michael Fox's book, Eating with Conscience: The bioethics of Food.) Be creative when cooking for your companion animals. Just be sure that your pet gets a recommended balance of protein, carbohydrates, and fats. I guarantee your animal companion will love you for the homecooked meal! Dog Menu Simple Recipe 3 cups cooked oatmeal or cream of wheat 2 cups cooked ground beef 2 tbsp. plain yogurt 1 small apple cut or sliced into small pieces Mix together and serve. This meal can be served at breakfast, lunch, or dinner." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) |
| "I do so because he is a prominent figure in contemporary bioethics and because his "preference utilitarian perspective" is a striking example of the contemporary debauchment of morality and politics by means of the medicalization of ethics. In his "Philosophical Self-Portrait," a summary of his principal contentions, Singer writes:
I am probably best known for Animal Liberation (1975,1990), a book that gave its title to a worldwide movement. The essential philosophical view it maintains is simple but revolutionary. Species is, in itself, as irrelevant to moral status as race or sex." - Thomas Szasz, The Medicalization of Everyday Life: Selected Essays (Get the book.) |
| "Eric Juengst, a bioethicist, suggests that "the term enhancement is usually used in bioethics to characterize interventions designed to improve human form or functioning beyond what is necessary to sustain or restore human health" (1998: 29). From a sociological point of view, however, it is not necessarily obvious what is "human form or functioning beyond . . . human health" because, as social constructionists and others have pointed out, the definition of health is socially situated, is flexible, and may ultimately be a mirage (Dubos, 1959)." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "Biology, Biologists and Bioethics: Concerns for scientists, politicians and consumers. Naples: Foxwell & Davies Italia; 2004.
Ford's type of production were, half a century later, to become known as 'Fordism'. Fordism was the apotheosis of conveyor-belt capitalism. It involved the use of standard parts, manufactured by standard machines, which were assembled by workers engaged for long periods at repetitive tasks."- Martin J. Walker, HRT Licensed to Kill and Maim: The Unheard Voices of Women Damaged by Hormone Replacement Therapy (Get the book.) |
| "Carl Elliott at the University of Minnesota Center for bioethics summarized the growing trend for drug companies to support academic centers for bioethics. Such ties mute criticism of the drug companies, in Elliott's view.38
Furthermore, noninstitutional review boards (NIRB's) are increasingly replacing academic institutional review boards in overseeing clinical research. These boards must review and approve any research involving human subjects before the research can begin." - Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
 "In: New Dimensions in Bioethics: Science. Ethics and the Formulation of Public Policy, pp. 79-108. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 114c Pimentel, D. and L. Levitan. "Pesticides: Amounts Applied and Amounts Reaching Pests," Bioscience, 1986. pp. 36, 86-91.
115 USA Today, June 29, 2001.
116 Stephens, Francine, "Lawn and Garden Pesticides," Children's Health Environmental Coalition. www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=427
117a Access-Pesticides. "2,4-D: A New Lease on Life," February 1996:
XXI (2). University of Arizona."- Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.) |
 "Enough changes in law and science, policy and economics, bioethics and religion, and the core itself may begin to crumble.
The turmoil in the health care system today is evidence that the core is crumbling. Some respond by looking forward, others by looking backward. Some try to rebuild the crumbling edifice, others want to blow it up and start over. Either response requires a re-imagining of what we want doctors to be and do. Some of the most imaginative responses today come not from medicine, bioethics, or health policy but from fiction."- John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.) "Modern bioethics is dominated by nonphysicians. The conflict between an internal ethic of the profession and an external ethic for the profession energizes one of the more interesting debates in the field of bioethics. Simply stated, the question is whether medicine is primarily and intrinsically a moral enterprise, with its own internal values and norms, or whether it is primarily a technical and scientific enterprise that is morally neutral until society or culture or individual patients bring values that imbue it with moral purpose." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.) "Following Jacques Barzun, he concludes that ethics is so embedded in culture that to understand American bioethics, you have to understand baseball. A recent case on the Medical College of Wisconsin bioethics Discussion Forum on the Internet raised a conflict about truth telling and about the peculiarities of our modern American approach to such dilemmas. Here was the case: A 9-year old girl with AIDS has developed chronic lung disease and AIDS nephropathy. Her lung disease is progressive but she does not yet require supplemental oxygen." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.) "From a bioethics perspective, these legal considerations reflected appropriate moral concerns. Not to tell would be paternalistic, and in bioethics there is no greater sin than paternalism, although that might be hard to explain to her father. But from another perspective, it seemed a little more complex. Were we really concerned about the patient's interest or about the hospital's? Whenever ethics and risk management agree, a red flag should go up. Furthermore, the legal and moral principles that we were relying on were neither timeless nor universal." - John D. Lantos, M.D., Do We Still Need Doctors?: A Physician's Personal Account of Practicing Medicine Today (Get the book.) |
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