Ethics, Medical Research, and Medicine: Commercialism versus Environmentalism and Social Justice

Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction; A. Thompson, N.J. Temple. How Essential is Medical Research? A. Thompson. Cost, Distributive Justice and Noblesse Oblige; A. Thompson. Research Design; A. Thompson, N.J. Temple. Disseminating the Results; A. Thompson, M. Egger. Leaping Over the Species' Gap: The Substitution of Humans by Other Animals in Testing of Procedures and Substances; A. Thompson. The Moral Justification for Substituting Other Animals in Medical Research; A. Thompson. How To Make A Mountain And A Mint Out Of, At Most, A Molehill: Statin Drugs; A. Thompson, N.J. Temple.The Right Heart Catheter: Evidence versus Bias; S. Workman. The Dubious Merits of Screening for Cancer of the Breast and Prostate; A. Thompson, N.J. Temple. The Genomics Revolution in Medicine: A Case of Extreme Information Overload; A. Thompson, N.J. Temple. Disease Prevention: The Low-Tech, Low-Cost Road Less Travelled; N.J. Temple. Postscript; N.J. Temple, A. Thompson. Index.