medical ethics

A collection of thirteen scientific essays on the relation of ethics and theology to the study of the human genome, covering topics such as the development and application of the technology and other issues pertaining to social justice and medical ethics.

Reveals how drug companies are distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of Americans by offering doctors bribes to prescribe their medicines, even when another treatment might be more effective.

Running from assassins, research ethicist David Tennant and his psychiatrist, Rachel Weiss, find that the fate of the world lies in David's ability to outwit the project from which he was just driven: Trinity, a computer whose powers match--or surpass--the human mind.

A collection of essays which explore how the war on terrorism and the threat of chemical and biological weapons have impacted a variety of already complex moral and bioethical issues.

Concealing the medical mistake that caused the death of a famous actor, Dr. Marc Schlosser gradually reveals the personal reasons why he sought the victim's death, including an assault on the doctor's daughter.

Explores controversies related to medical ethics, including whether or not ethics should influence the nation's health care system, how ethics impacts organ transplants, reproductive technologies, and a doctor's involvement in the choice to end a patient's life.