"Results showed that the neighborhood disadvantage was positively related to frequency of gambling and problem/pathological gambling" in a national study of national telephone survey included 2631 U.S. adults (Welte 2006: 405)
The Case For Implanting a Defective Gene In the first place, author Betty Adelson insists that in the past 30 years, dwarfs "have created a new world" in which they are approaching normalcy "more closely than at any time." And new medical knowledge have allowed them "to be much healthier over the course of their lifetimes" (Adelson, 2005, p
, the right to vote, or do what they want with their money, etc. (Bandman, 1999, p
It is not the government's decision to make, so long as PGD services are legal and their work is transparent. Regarding moral principles, David Resnik's "Autonomy" principle is very appropriate: "Allow rational individuals to make free and informed choices" (Resnik, 1998)
5). Doctors and the Ethics of Preimplantation Genetic diagnosis (PGD) An article in The New York Times (Sanghavi, 2006) points out that there are now many preimplantation clinics where preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) takes place; that is, where embryos are analyzed then placed in a woman's uterus
Introduction Identifying cottage industry as the problem mandated an industrial and corporate development as the solution. So-called market reformers sought to transform medicine into a "modern corporate system, featuring the sophisticated financial and managerial controls associated with big business" (Battistella, 1985)
S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, answered "certainly" to his 1988 query, "Is it possible that in this era of high-tech medicine we just don't know with any precision whether many procedures truly affect the medical outcome?" (Califano, 1988)
46-63). HMO and other managed care supporters declared that the cottage industry of medicine was finally having its industrial revolution (Eisenberg & Kabcenell, 1988)
" (Morone, 1997). Group practices, promoted for decades as progressive reform, took on a new business identity as health maintenance organizations (HMOs) in what sociologist Donald Light called perhaps the "greatest rhetorical reversal in the history of American health care" (Light, pp
Political scientist James Morone advised that medicine was suddenly and rapidly becoming a "corporate enterprise organized and run along business principles." (Morone, 1997)
Health Policy and Bioethics The United States was in an uproar in the late twentieth century over whether medical care was or ought to be a business. The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine made the Health Policy Advisory Center's earlier warning about the rise of a "medical-industrial complex" a mainstream concern (Relman, 1980)
Killing is clearly sinful in the eyes of God, as the human embryo already has the human soul -- the image of God -- imprinted upon it (Genesis 1:27). The debate about stem cell research is therefore similar to the abortion debate because it is related to the state of the soul at conception (Barnes, P
2005). "The Bible clearly indicates that life does begin at conception," (Purdom 2007)
"The Bible clearly indicates that life does begin at conception," (Purdom 2007). Science agrees with religion on this point: "scientists know that nerve and brain cells emerge shortly after conception," (Thompson 2005)