BIOMEDICAL ETHICS What ends will or should the new technology serve? What values should guide society’s adjustments? By what standards should the assessment agencies assess What do we mean by the betterment of humanity? What is a good person? What is a good life? What is a good community?
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BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
What ends will or should the new technology serve?
What values should guide society’s adjustments?
By what standards should the assessment agencies assess?
What do we mean by the betterment of humanity?
What is a good person?
What is a good life?
What is a good community?
“THE NEW BIOLOGY”
1. Control of Death
2. Control of Life
3. Control of Human (genetic) Potential
4. Control of Human Achievement
Kass, Leon. (1971). The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man’s Estate? Science, 174(4011):779-788
“…we may be rapidly acquiring the power to modify and control the capacities and activities of men by direct intervention and manipulation of their bodies and minds.”
Kass, Leon. (1971). The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man’s Estate? Science,174(4011):779-88
[p. 779]
“THE NEW BIOLOGY”
“Biomedical technology may make it possible to change the inherent capacity for choice itself…humans can for the first time recreate themselves.””
Kass, Leon. (1971). The New Biology: What Price Relieving Man’s Estate? Science,174(4011):779-88
[p. 780]
“THE NEW BIOLOGY”
CONTROL OF DEATH
Heroic Medicine / Euthanasia
Infant Mortality
Organ Transplants / Stem Cells
Infectious Disease
Degeneration / Aging
What is Death ?
“The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism”
“Cessation of all vital functions without the capability of resuscitation”
• Microscopic projections lining the outermost layer of the embryonic sac
• same genetic material as fetus
• sampled at 10-12 weeks gestation
• fast turnaround time
HUMAN POTENTIAL
Genetic Counseling
HUMAN POTENTIAL
Sterilization
Carrie Buck case
HUMAN POTENTIAL
Positive Eugenics
HUMAN POTENTIAL
Cryobanks
HUMAN POTENTIAL
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
Neurological, psychological and physiological manipulation
• Mood altering & enhancing medications
• Cosmetic endrochronology
Valium• diazepam
• addictive potential high - 2 wks
• birth defects -’floppy child’ syndrome
• ‘for relief of psychic tension and its somatic symptoms’
• females outnumber users 2.5 to 1
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
Valium• most widely prescribed drug
worldwide in the 60s & 70s
• prescribed for anxiety, depression, insomnia, and anxiety
• caused depression, anxiety, and insomnia
• marketed to our desire for a ‘good life’
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
Growth Hormone
Growth Hormone• given to normal but small kids
• add 6” height, 50% muscle mass
• recombinant DNA technology
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
AdrenalCortex
Thyroid
Testis
OvaryBone
UterineMuscles
MammaryGlands
KidneyTubules
Hypothalamus
Pituitary
Adrenocortotropic Hormone
ThyroidStimulating
Hormone
Gonadotro
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Go
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Gro
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Ho
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Oxytocin
Oxytocin & Prolactin
Antidiurectic
Hormone
HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Derek Roberts
Peter Singer
Rational or Rationed Medicine ?
• Should everyone have access to care, regardless of ailment ?
• Control of infertility, increase in life expectancy, reduction in infant mortality , reduced infectious disease = diminished limits on population growth
Derek Roberts
Peter Singer
Rational or Rationed Medicine ?
• increases at 6X the rate of inflation per year
• $4,700 per person per year paid for health care
• High deductibles for families - $2,000
• Racial divide in access, regardless of income
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
Derek Roberts
Peter Singer
Rational or Rationed Medicine ?
0 = costs nothing, gives back alot
3 = costs a little, gives back some
7 = society sustains them beyond what they pay back
10 = costs from the start, not possible to pay back
BIOMEDICAL ETHICS
What ends will or should the new technology serve?
What values should guide society’s adjustments?
By what standards should the assessment agencies assess?