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Caplan, Arthur Leonard was born on March 21, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Sidney and Natalie (Fluke) Caplan.
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This topical book is designed to make you think. The majority of issues examined in the text consist of moral dilemmas that could happen to anyone. Each chapter contains essays that are brimming with opinions, and every essay presents an argument(s) in support of those views. Honing your ethical skills by thinking critically about these essays will help you reflect more clearly about the moral challenges and ethical puzzles which will inevitably arise in your life.
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In When Medicine Went Mad, one of the nation's leading bioethicists-and an extraordinary panel of experts and concentration camp survivors-examine problems first raised by Nazi medical experimentation that remain difficult and relevant even today. The importance of these issues to contemporary bioethical disputes-particularly in the thorny areas of medical genetics, human experimentation, and euthanasia-are explored in detail and with sensitivity.
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"An important contribution to a debate that will continue for some time." ―Health and Canadian Society "Insightful and thought-provoking.... As Caplan has demonstrated so clearly... we would all be better off if the ethicists spoke first and not last." ―The Washington Post "Caplan’s views are important and instructive.... This book represents some of his best work." ―New England Journal of Medicine "Caplan’s book is thought provoking, insightful, and well argued. I recommend it highly."―The Journal of the American Medical Association "... a generously illustrated discourse on method in medical and practical ethics." ―Ethics A member of the President’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform examines some of the most controversial biomedical issues of our time.
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Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is not an accurate assessment of the situ ation. Medical technology has not overwhelmed our moral ity. It would be more accurate to say that our society has not yet achieved consensus about the complex ethical iss ues that arise when medicine tries to assist those who seek its services in order to reproduce. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of ethical opinion about what we ought to do with respect to the use of surrogate mothers, in vitro fertil ization, embryo transfer, artificial insemination, or fertil ity drugs. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction as technology. The term "technology" carries with it connotations of machines buzzing and technicians scurrying about trying to control a vast array of equip ment. Yet, most of the methods used to assist reproduc tion that are discussed in this volume do not involve exotic technologies or complicated hardware. It is technique, more than technology, that dominates the field of assisted reproduction. Efforts to help the infertile by means of the manipu lation of human reproductive materials and organs date 1 2 Caplan back at least to Biblical times. Human beings have en gaged in all manner of sexual practices and manipulations in attempts to achieve reproduction when nature has balked at allowing life to begin.
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(Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the...)
Arthur L. Caplan It is commonly said, especially when the subject is assisted reproduction, that medical technology has out stripped our morality. Yet, as the essays in this volume make clear, that is not an accurate assessment of the situ ation. Medical technology has not overwhelmed our moral ity. It would be more accurate to say that our society has not yet achieved consensus about the complex ethical iss ues that arise when medicine tries to assist those who seek its services in order to reproduce. Nevertheless, there is no shortage of ethical opinion about what we ought to do with respect to the use of surrogate mothers, in vitro fertil ization, embryo transfer, artificial insemination, or fertil ity drugs. Nor is it entirely accurate to describe assisted repro duction as technology. The term "technology" carries with it connotations of machines buzzing and technicians scurrying about trying to control a vast array of equip ment. Yet, most of the methods used to assist reproduc tion that are discussed in this volume do not involve exotic technologies or complicated hardware. It is technique, more than technology, that dominates the field of assisted reproduction. Efforts to help the infertile by means of the manipu lation of human reproductive materials and organs date 1 2 Caplan back at least to Biblical times. Human beings have en gaged in all manner of sexual practices and manipulations in attempts to achieve reproduction when nature has balked at allowing life to begin.
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Caplan, Arthur Leonard was born on March 21, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Sidney and Natalie (Fluke) Caplan.
Bachelor in Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1971. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Columbia University, 1973. Master of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1975.
Doctor of Philosophy in History and Philosophy of Science, Columbia University, 1979. Seven degrees (honorary), colleges and medical schools.
Teacher University Pittsburgh, Columbia University. Staff associate in ethical issues in science and medicine The Hastings Center, 1975-1976, associate for humanities, 1977-1984, associate director, 1984—1987. Instructor School Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, 1977-1978, associate for social medicine, 1978-1981.
Professor philosophy, surgery, director Center for Biomedical Ethics University Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1987-1994. Emmanuel and Robert Hart professor bioethics, chair department medical ethics, director Center Bioethics University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, since 1994. Visiting professor University Pittsburgh, 1986: advisory board Poynter Institute, National Marrow Donor Program, American Red Cross.
Chair advisory committee United Nations on Human Cloning, Department Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability. Member Presdnl. Advisory Committee on Gulf War Illnesses. Member special advisory committee International Olympic Committee on Genetics and Gene Therapy.
Member ethics committee American Society Gene Therapy. Special advisory panel National Institute of Mental Health on Human Experimentation on Vulnerable Subjects. Columnist Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company.com.
Frequent guest and commentator National Public Radio, Cable News Network, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, and others. Consultant in field many corporations, non-profit organizations and consumer organizations. Member national and international committees.
Chair National Cancer Institute Biobanking Ethics Working Group. Member board directors The Keystone Center, Tengion, The National Center Policy Research on Women and Families, Octagon, Iron Disorders Foundation and the National Disease Research Interchange.
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Member Clinical Health Care Task Force, Washington (vice chairman ethics working group 1993-1994). Consultant Office of Technology Assessment United States Congress, Minnesota Department Health, American Foundation for Acuired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Research, National Institutes of Health, Department Health and Human Services, National Marrow Donor Program, Lifesource-Organ Procurement Organization, National Academy of Sciences-Institute Medicine, state legislation Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York, New Jersey. Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science, College Physicians Philadelphia, New York Academy Medicine, The Hastings Center.
Member: American Association Bioethics (president 1993-1995), Aspen Institute (Mellon fellow), American Philosophical Association (Centennial Prize), Central Society Clinical Research.
Married Janet Stojak, June 6, 1971. 1 child, Zachary.