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THE TERRIBLE GIFT: THE BRAVE NEW WORLD OF GENETIC MEDICINE
Carlson, Rick J.
2002 7000286 Hardcover. New book Jacket. Small Remainder Mark Outside P. 0.8 x 6.5 x 9.8 inches. From Publishers Weekly: Health-care consultant Carlson (The End of Medicine) and writer Stimeling (coauthor of The Body Electric) offer an assessment of biotechnology”s promise and peril, with emphasis on the peril. Insisting that not enough attention is paid to biotechnology's potential dangers, the authors voice concerns about profit-driven, class-restrictive medicine where 'the diseased are just another market, and propose some provocative solutions for a flawed medical system. The idea that cloning will lead to a future where 'the wealthy may quietly contract for shadow clones, headless bodies. grown in sterile bubbles to serve as organ trees, a ready supply of transplantables for family and friends is covered in this 305 page volume. A provocative, cautionary exploration of the onrushing revolution in health care: its science-fiction benefits, its hidden dangers, and the disturbing choices it will force us all to make. The mapping of the human genome and other biological breakthroughs will have startling practical implications for every one of us. In the past, the physician's art has been devoted to making sick people well. The medicine of the future will be far better at curing illness, but it will also be increasingly dedicated to making well people better-sexier, happier, prettier, smarter-and to generating incredible profits for its practitioners and their corporate sponsors. Some fruits of the new genetic medicine will be unmixed blessings; others imply a chilling redefinition of what it means to be human. And all will impose enormous costs on society. Social and economic inequality will worsen as the medical haves outperform, outcompete, and outlive the have-nots. The profit imperative will foster ever-costlier biological upgrades in place of safer, simpler, natural alternatives. Through patents and commercialization of research, a handful of corporations will come to control huge swaths of the human genome. And health care costs will continue to grow. "The Terrible Gift" is an essential primer to the crucial choices we already face as both citizens and consumers of health care. Published at twenty six dollars. New York: Public Affairs, 2002 1891620657 / 9781891620652
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