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Feeling Good and Doing Better - Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
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Feeling Good and Doing Better - Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984)
Series: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society
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The place of drugs in American society is a problem more apt to
evoke diatribe than dialog. With the support of the Na tional
Science Foundation's program on Ethics and Values in Science and
Technology, and the National Endowment for the Humanities' program
on Science, Technology, and Human Values, * The Hastings Center was
able to sponsor such dialog as part of a major research into the
ethics of drug use that spanned two years. We assembled a Research
Group from leaders in the scientific, medical, legal, and policy
com munities, leavened with experts in applied ethics, and brought
them together several times a year to discuss the moral, legal and
social issues posed by nontherapeutic drug use. At times we also
called on other experts when we needed certain issues clarified. We
did not try to reach a consensus, yet several broad areas of
agreement emerged: That our society's response to nontherapeutic
drug use has been irrational and inconsistent; that our attempts at
control have been clumsy and ill-informed; that many complex moral
values are entwined in the debate and cannot be reduced to a simple
conflict between individual liberty and state paternalism. Of
course each paper should be read as the statement of that
particular author or authors. The views expressed in this book do
not necessarily represent the views of The Hastings Center, the
National Science Foundation, or the National En dowment for the
Humanities."
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