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Who Says You're Dead?

Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned

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Who Says You're Dead?

By: Jacob M. Appel MD
Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
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Drawing upon the author's two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up challenging ethical dilemmas and asks listeners, What would you do?

  • A daughter gets tested to see if she's a match to donate a kidney to her father. The test reveals that she is not the man's biological daughter. Should the doctor tell the father? Or the daughter?
  • A deaf couple prefers a deaf baby. Should they be allowed to use medical technology to ensure they have a child who can't hear?
  • Who should get custody of an embryo created through IVF when a couple divorces?
  • Or, when you or a loved one is on life support, Who says you're dead?

In short, engaging scenarios, Dr. Appel takes on hot-button issues that many of us will confront: genetic screening, sexuality, privacy, doctor-patient confidentiality. He unpacks each hypothetical with a brief reflection drawing from science, philosophy, and history, explaining how others have approached these controversies in real-world cases. Who Says You're Dead? is designed to defy easy answers and to stimulate thought and even debate among professionals and armchair ethicists alike.

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This is a useful introduction to the kinds of medical ethical dilemmas that occur. The discussions are fairly simplistic and there is no case law included, which makes it easy to listen to. It is USA based and the section on Female Genital Mutilation was really shocking for a UK citizen. The author compares FGM to male circumcision which is completely wrong. To do a 'male version' of FGM then the whole head of the penis would need to be surgically cut off, not just the foreskin. If the situation described in the book happened in the UK the child would be taken into care, to protect the child from parents intending to damage a child in this way.
Whatever the attitudes in the USA I would request for the publishers to change this section, as comparing FGM to male circumcision is completely medically inaccurate.

Interesting ...but highlights differing attitudes

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