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Worse than the disease : pitfalls of medical progress / Diana B. Dutton, with contributions by Thomas A. Preston, Nancy E. Pfund.

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This book examines four medical innovations that epitomize the pitfalls of progress: DES, a synthetic estrogen prescribed to millions of women to prevent miscarriages, which produced devastating side effects; the artificial heart; the 1976 swine flu immunization program; and genetic engineering. Dut...

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Main Author: Dutton, Diana Barbara
Other Authors: Preston, Thomas A., 1933-, Pfund, Nancy E.
Other title:Pitfalls of medical progress.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Subjects:
Medical innovations > Social aspects > Case studies.
Medical innovations > Social aspects.
Medical innovations > Moral and ethical aspects > Case studies.
Medical innovations > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical innovations > Economic aspects > Case studies.
Medical innovations > Economic aspects.
Human Experimentation.
Technology Assessment, Biomedical.
United States.
Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Where are we and how did we get there?
  • DES and the elusive goal of drug safety
  • The artificial heart / by Thomas A. Preston
  • The swine flu immunization program
  • Genetic engineering: science and social responsibility / by Diana B. Dutton and Nancy E. Pfund
  • Risks and rights
  • Compensating the injuries of medical innovation
  • What is fair? Medical innovation and justice
  • The role of the public
  • What is possible? Toward medical progress in the public interest.

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