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Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine

Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice

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Editors:
  1. Andrew Thompson

    1. University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

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  2. Norman J. Temple

    1. Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. How Essential is Medical Research?

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 1-8

  3. Cost, Distributive Justice and Noblesse Oblige

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 9-18

  4. Research Design

    • Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple
    Pages 19-40

  5. Disseminating the Results

    • Andrew Thompson, Matthias Egger
    Pages 41-58

  6. Leaping Over the Species’ Gap: The Substitution of Humans by Other Animals in Testing of Procedures and Substances

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 59-73

  7. The Moral Justification for Substituting Other Animals in Medical Research

    • Andrew Thompson
    Pages 75-94

  8. How To Make A Mountain and A Mint Out of, At Most, A Molehill: Statin Drugs

    • Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple
    Pages 95-116

  9. The Right Heart Catheter: Evidence versus Bias

    • Stephen Workman
    Pages 117-128

  10. The Dubious Merits of Screening for Cancer of the Breast and Prostate

    • Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple
    Pages 129-145

  11. The Genomics Revolution in Medicine: A Case of Extreme Information Overload

    • Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple
    Pages 147-168

  12. Disease Prevention: The Low-Tech, Low-Cost Road Less Travelled

    • Norman J. Temple
    Pages 169-187

  13. Postscript

    • Norman J. Temple, Andrew Thompson
    Pages 189-192

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 193-195
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About this book

Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple We humans are an extraordinary species. One of our finest achievements is the development of morality, of a sense of right and wrong. We articulate and then impose this sensitivity upon ourselves in the form of ethical guidelines, rules, regulations, and laws. We have, regrettably, also developed marvelously clever ways of justifying our behavior whenever it runs afoul of these prescriptions. We have, for example, developed the concept of objectivity to guide scientific pursuits and subsequently established rights which undermine the possibility of ever coming close to attaining the goal of being objective -- rights which entitle participating scientists to gain personal, tangible profits from scientific discoveries. Formerly, we envisaged gods who kept us in place, who reminded us that we were not all-powerful or especially wise. Now we tend to worship our achievements, especially our technological ones, and ourselves. Mary Midgley' aptly names this phenomenon, "humanolatry." We have lost our respect for nature in our enthusiasm for changing it to that which suits our shortsighted ends. We must, as she says, "unlearn" this way of thinking.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oregon, Eugene, USA

    Andrew Thompson

  • Athabasca University, Athabasca, Canada

    Norman J. Temple

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice

  • Editors: Andrew Thompson, Norman J. Temple

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0794-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7084-0Published: 31 August 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7103-8Published: 31 August 2001

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0794-8Published: 27 June 2011

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 195

  • Topics: Ethics, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, General Practice / Family Medicine, Philosophy of Medicine

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