Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People

Arthur L. Caplan is one of the most sought after bioethicists of our time. The recipient of many awards and honors, he was named USA Today's Person of the Year for 2001, one of the fifty most influential people in American health care by Modern Health Care magazine, and one of the ten most influential people in America in biotechnology by the National Journal. Caplan is a frequent guest and commentator for National Public Radio, Nightline, CNN, Fox, CBS, the New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other media outlets. Caplan has authored or edited twenty-five books and more than 500 articles, and writes a regular bioethics column for MSNBC.com. He is Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics, Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics, and Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Is America Going to Hell?Part 2 Part I: General InterestChapter 3 Duty versus ConscienceChapter 4 The Ethics of Brain ImagingChapter 5 Has Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Gone Too Far?Chapter 6 Ethical Lessons From the Flu BugChapter 7 The Colonel Kicks the HabitChapter 8 Shame on Jeb BushChapter 9 Stark Raving MadnessPart 10 Part II: End of LifeChapter 11 Million Dollar BabyChapter 12 Physician-Assisted Suicide in OregonChapter 13 Lessons From Terri SchiavoPart 14 Part III: Engineering OurselvesChapter 15 Is Cosmetic Surgery Always Vain?Chapter 16 Face-off over Gene FoodsChapter 17 Heightened Questions about Growth HormoneChapter 18 Brain EnhancementChapter 19 Seasonale: Medicine For the Sake of Convenience?Chapter 20 Raffy and the Trouble with SteroidsChapter 21 When Steroids and Politics MixChapter 22 ANDi the Florescent MonkeyPart 23 Part IV: Engineering Plants, Microbes, and AnimalsChapter 24 Are Genetically Modified Foods Fit for a Dog?Chapter 25 Miss Cleo, Meet "CC," the Kitty CloneChapter 26 Whipping Up the Avian FluChapter 27 Should Scientists Create New Life?Chapter 28 Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart PeoplePart 29 Part V: Experimentation EthicsChapter 30 Testing Biological and Chemical Weapons: Any Volunteers?Chapter 31 Lawsuits Are Not the AnswerChapter 32 Commercial Concerns Should Take a Backseat to Public AwarenessChapter 33 Research Ban at Hopkins a Sign of Ethical CrisisChapter 34 Research on the Newly DeadChapter 35 Will We Ever Debunk Our Mythology about Human Subjects Research?Part 36 Part VI: Health ReformChapter 37 Cause CélèbreChapter 38 Cheap Drugs Are Not the Answer to the African AIDS Crisis—Better Infrastruction IsChapter 39 Humility or Hubris?Chapter 40 Fiddling While the Health System BurnsChapter 41 No Coverage for Kids a Moral FailureChapter 42 New World Calls For New Health CareChapter 43 Our Dying Health Care SystemChapter 44 The Moral Tragedy of Chronic IllnessPart 45 Part VII: Human Cloning and Stem Cell ResearchChapter 46 Cloning: Separating the Science from the FictionChapter 47 Cloning Flicks Offer a Moral LessonChapter 48 Embryonic Cloning Feat Points to Problems with Bush PolicyChapter 49 Korean Cloning FraudChapter 50 Media Bungled Clone Claim CoverageChapter 51 ChutzpahChapter 52 The End of the Embryonic Stem Cell DebatePart 53 Part VIII: Mapping OurselvesChapter 54 Ethics First, Then GeneticsChapter 55 His Genes, Our GenomeChapter 56 Let's Keep Our Genome in PerspectiveChapter 57 "Darwin Vindicated!"Chapter 58 Ready for the Genomic Age?Chapter 59 Unethical Policies Undermine Value of Genetic TestingChapter 60 Who Needs Bill Gates?Part 61 Part IX: ReproductionChapter 62 Let's Talk about SexChapter 63 Model EggsChapter 64 Soldier's Sperm Offers Biological Insurance PolicyChapter 65 Talking Reproductive ResponsibilityChapter 66 Test Tube Babies versus ClonesChapter 67 The Problem With "Embryo Adoption"Chapter 68 Are You Ever Too Old to Have a Baby?Part 69 Part X: The State of Science in USAChapter 70 Hullabaloo Over MMR Risk Misses the PointChapter 71 If Science Becomes Politicized, Where Do We Go For Truth?Chapter 72 Is Biomedical Research Too Dangerous to Pursue?Chapter 73 Misusing the Nazi AnalogyChapter 74 How the President's Council on Bioethics Lost Its CredibilityChapter 75 Pray it Ain't SoChapter 76 Who Wins When Religion Squares Off against Science?Chapter 77 Why Are These Nuts Testifying?Part 78 Part XI: Donation and Transplantation of OrgansChapter 79 About FaceChapter 80 Restricting Blood Donations or Mad Cow the Deadlier Threat?Chapter 81 Jumping the LineChapter 82 www.matchingdonors.comChapter 83 Misguided Effort to Ease the Organ ShortageChapter 84 No Excuse for Blood Donor BiasChapter 85 Sperm Transplants Should Spur DebateChapter 86 The Return of Fetal Tissue TransplantsChapter 87 Afterword: What Is Bioethics?

Art Caplan has written a smart, provocative book that examines medical ethics in America and the intrusion of politics on complex, scientific issues. Smart Mice, Not So Smart People is an engaging read that tackles controversial subjects ranging from tube feeding to cloning and brings them alive for the layman.