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This concise version of INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION, International
Edition offers the same clear and accurate accounts of complex
scientific findings with case presentations which have made Ronald
Munson's INTERVENTION AND REFLECTION, International Edition the
best-selling textbook for this course area. Nationally acclaimed
bioethicist and novelist Ronald Munson masterfully weds clear and
accurate accounts of complex scientific findings with case
presentations whose vivid narrative helps students connect science
with the human emotion behind important and controversial
biomedical decisions. These engaging cases and briefings conclude
with succinct summaries of basic ethical theories and are followed
by up-to-date and influential articles addressing the most pressing
issues in bioethics today. You will quickly learn why INTERVENTION
AND REFLECTION, Concise International Edition continues to be the
most widely used bioethics textbook on the market: Students are
often surprised to find that this unusual text is hard to put down.
THE ELEMENTS OF REASONING is a concise and lucid introduction to
the basic elements of argumentative prose and the conceptual tools
necessary to understand, analyze, criticize, and construct
arguments. This text is not only perfect for a college course in
argument analysis, but also as a reference tool when confronted
with arguments outside the classroom experience. While THE ELEMENTS
OF REASONING covers the standard formal tools of introductory
logic, its emphasis is on practical applications to the kinds of
arguments students most often encounter.
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more
spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical
questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000
Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving
vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And
what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of
our thorniest ethical questions.
In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often
wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how
we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of
tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a
detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial
liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its
surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received
special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems
involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should
have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant
ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex
personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The
book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the
future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal
organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow
doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells.
Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a
novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows
readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility
of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical
challenges it forces us to confront.
Perhaps no medical breakthrough in the twentieth century is more spectacular, more hope-giving, or more fraught with ethical questions than organ transplantation. Each year some 25,000 Americans are pulled back from the brink of death by receiving vital new organs. Another 5,000 die while waiting for them. And what distinguishes these two groups has become the source of one of our thorniest ethical questions. In Raising the Dead, Ronald Munson offers a vivid, often wrenchingly dramatic account of how transplants are performed, how we decide who receives them, and how we engage the entire range of tough issues that arise because of them. Each chapter begins with a detailed account of a specific case--Mickey Mantle's controversial liver transplant, for example--followed by careful analysis of its surrounding ethical questions (the charges that Mantle received special treatment because he was a celebrity, the larger problems involving how organs are allocated, and whether alcoholics should have an equal claim on donor livers). In approaching transplant ethics through specific cases, Munson reminds us of the complex personal and emotional dimension that underlies such issues. The book also ranges beyond our present capabilities to explore the future possibilities in xenotransplantation (transplanting animal organs into humans) and stem cell technology that would allow doctors to grow new organs from the patient's own cells. Based on extensive scientific research, but written with a novelist's eye for the human condition, Raising the Dead shows readers the reality of organ transplantation now, the possibility of what it may become, and how we might respond to the ethical challenges it forces us to confront.
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