MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION Can we justify medical experimentation on animals? ... Although, single experiments will not lead to any medical discovery, only coordinated sequences of patterned activity will provide significant outcomes. ... Every disease eliminated, vaccine developed and treatment prescribed was due in whole or in part to experimentation using animals. ... We must reformulate the moral question; should we continue the practice of medical experimentation on animals? ... When compared to the medical advancement, disease control, and the benefit to mankind, the moral ...

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Religion and Medical Issues A) (i) There are many different treatments available that are available to people who are infertile. Different treatments are all given to people with different conditions. ... In general Roman Catholics believe that using infertility treatments is wrong, this stems from four main ideas. ... So therefore having a child through complicated medical procedures which are unnatural is wrong. ... They believe that using treatments like GIFT and IVF are just using Gods" gift of intelligence and it is what he wants. ...

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This action brought about many changes to the medical field such as the laws pertaining to voluntary participation in medical research, the use of these cells in new medical research where other cells have failed, and bringing to light the morality of not properly informing the people that are going into medical research. ... They took her tissue samples of her cancer when she came in for her radiation treatments. ... There are many consequences if doctors or medical personal ignore these laws. ... Another consequence could be the loss of suspension of their medical license. Due to this invo...

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The use of animals for medical experimentation has been one of the most controversial issues in our world since the seventeenth century. ... It has helped provide antibiotics and vaccines, insulin for diabetics, treatments for leukemia, local and general anesthetics, and has made possible advances in medical technology such as blood transfusion, kidney dialysis, and the heart lung machine. ... Vernon Coleman, "One in six patients in hospitals are there because of a treatment they have taken." In America, 100,000 deaths a year are attributed to medical treatment. In one year, 1.5 million people...

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This is due to modern treatments and technology. ... Medical ethics also deals with medical advances in technology and has reshaped traditional medical ethics. ... Treatment for psoriasis depends on the person's age, lifestyle, and severity of the disease. The goal of the treatment is to reduce inflammation and reduce the shedding of skin. Cancer Treatments For more than 1oo years, physicians have used radiation treat cancer. ...

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The most common treatment of cancer is chemotherapy. ... About 1/10 of American couples can't conceive and in many cases medical treatments can't help them. Federal statistics show that less than 20% of infertile citizens are successful with normal treatment. ... Cloning for Medical Purposes. 17 May 1999. ... The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia. 2000 ed. ...

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Animals have been used for medical research for the past two thousand years. ... Many medical breakthroughs have resulted from testing medications on animals. ... Many believe it is just as well to perform medical and reactive (allergic) testing on a live human being. (Bloyd) People have joined together to create different social groups to stand for what they believe in: fair and ethical treatment of animals. ... Tumors; kidney disease, Hodgkin's Disease, pigment augmentation, tissues and structure, cancer, and the control of oxygen transmitted through the blood are all different medic...

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The medical service already has enough pressures of its own, is it really fair to add another one to its load? Also would the decision made by the doctor be made on sound medical reasons or would it be made on depending on personal views of the doctor in question. ... Medical advances in recent years have made it possible to keep terminally ill people alive for an extended period of time, without any hope of improvement or recovery. ... Most states now legally allow the making of such wills that instruct medical personnel to stop treatment or refuse life-support treatment in cases that are see...

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"The cause of action there will be one that might be anchored in just the liberty interest to pursue a medical cure or in pursuing the medical profession to find that cure"(Works cited, 1). ... Some see it as an insult to humanity, yet others are fighting for the chance to be able to use this technology for medical advances and cures. "Cloning could shed light on how genes work and lead to the discovery of new treatments for genetic diseases. ... The United Kingdom has established a publicly funded medical research council, which already sets up fast track grants to attract international ...

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With all of the various arguments coming from both sides, it is important to understand the pros of human and partial human cloning from the standpoint of medical professionals. It is also important to realize that this is one of the most promising breakthroughs in recent medical science, and that human cloning should not be excluded from government funding put towards medical research, at the provincial and federal levels. ... These treatments rely on stem cells being devolved in a lab to prepare them to be used in another body, by using Therapeutic Cloning to acquire these cells scientists ...

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To make an active effort to put a person out of misery is very controversial, although I agree completely in the patience's or patience guardian's right to deny any medical treatment. ... They also claim that euthanasia would lead to devaluation of human life, because it would force medical professionals and patients" families to judge the worth of other lives. ... Although I am not a definite proponent of active euthanasia, I do support passive euthanasia, which is described as declining to initiate extraordinary or even ordinary medical treatment. ...

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More lives have been saved with these medicines and treatments in contrast to the lives that have been taken in the process of creating these medicines. ... The animals may play a small role in the medical field, but it is a very important role. ... We learn in, "Animals Pioneer in Space", that over 15,000 animals are used every year to aid the space medical research for manned space flight. ...

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The patients or their relatives may ask a doctor to withhold treatment and let them die. Many critics of the medical profession contend that too often doctors play god on operating tables and in recovery rooms. ... Negative euthanasia is defined as the withholding of life preserving procedures and treatments that would prolong the life of one who is incurably and terminally ill and couldn't survive without them. ...

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We not only eat, ride, shoot, wear, trap, hunt, and farm animals, but the medical field experiments on over 17 million animals per year. ... Testing is conducted by a multitude of independent and government-funded groups, including the United States Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Defense and Transportation (Cowley 51), and the number grows almost daily with progress " and retrogression " in the medical field. ... At present, researchers at the California School of Medicine at Davis are infecting rhesus monkeys with simian AIDS to test treatment of the drug AZT (Cowley 52). ...

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Biotechnology was intended to enhance the treatment and cures of diseases by the uses of microorganisms and the organs of animals. ... The medical community is pushing to enhance treatment and cures for people suffering from diabetes or epilepsy, which in the final analysis will prove to be extremely beneficial but it is uncertain how long sick patients will have to wait. ... They believe if society pursues this technology future infants will be born with deformed hearts and lungs, therefore would have to be attached to the respirators and placed under intense medical care (Friend). ... Many p...

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With effective treatments available, there is no justification for committing suicide.One of society's traditional attitdes, expressed morally, legally, philosophically, and religiously is that human life merits special protection. ... From a medical point of view, euthanasia is irrational. ... Euthanasia radically misshapes the purpose of the medical profession along with corrupting its nature and purpose, namely to foster and protect life, not to take it. ...

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Thus, can human cloning technology lead to medical advances which human can benefit from? one of the scientist interest in helping humans to live a better and happier life is to help those who wished to have their own baby or for the treatment of infertility. ... However, these treatments have proven to be higly inefficient and they can't help people whose reproductive organs have not been developed or have been removed, this is according to an essay in the Human clonning foundation. ...

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A human life is priceless. It is by this principle that our society has functioned. If a person, a human life was merely worth a monetary value why would we sentence and punish those who have taken away such life. Excluding recent events resulting from the 9-11 tragedy the country has never fatho...

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Assuming all of this, a baby that was cloned would be the age of its donating parent, a true medical problem. ... Along with this would go treatment for spontaneous abortions? ... Cloning could shed light on how genes work and lead to the discovery of new treatments for genetic diseases. ... Cloning is comparable in safety to a number of other medical procedures. ... We are constantly looking for medical breakthroughs in all areas. ...

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Treatment by the doctor may be given to the mother as long as the treatment is meant to cure the illness and not abort the pregnancy. If the unborn child dies as a secondary result of these treatments then this is considered and indirect abortion. ... The term he proscribes is legitimate defence and it is defined as, "The intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less then others".9 In the Bible it also states, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself"(Mk 12:31); this coincides with indirect abortion because the mother of the unborn child must choose to seek...

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It is an issue which is more important in society today than ever before as medical advances cause implications for many people. ... They do not believe that research should be carried out on embryos over 14 days old and are opposed to research on embryos left over from IVF treatments, unless for issues related to human reproduction. ...

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Henrietta seemed like an ordinary women but never got to know what her cells have done to the course of medical history. ... Her cells have saved the lives of millions of people with vaccines and treatments to all different kinds of diseases and viruses. ...

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Therapeutic cloning is meant for medical research, and has no intention of creating entire human beings. Its purpose is simply a way to try to extend human life, which is what medical science has been doing since man's beginning. It has the potential to find cures or treatment for all major disease known to man. ...

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The novel Not Wanted On The Voyage, by Timothy Findley creates great insight into the world of today, although it is told in reference to the biblical times. Many of the events in this novel parallels to our fast pace, morally inept and deteriorating society.. The ...

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The cloning of humans has the potential to be the greatest achievement of medical science and it can solve some of the greatest problems facing mankind. ... One application of cloning may be in the treatment of neurological disorders and spinal cord trauma. ...

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