Faculty Bibliography

It is easy to demonize [PETER SINGER], 58, since his theory points toward conclusions that some find morally repugnant-for example, that euthanasia might be the appropriate response to the intractable suffering of an infant born with a terrible genetic malady. Those who scorn his views can rarely produce an argument about why he is wrong-they simply don't like his conclusions. But ethics is all about arguments, not moral pronouncements. I don't always agree with Peter

Now the airwaves and blogs are bursting with debates about whether [Rafael Palmeiro] has succeeded in lying his way right out of Cooperstown. There is, however, a much bigger and more fundamental ethical question raised by the Palmeiro implosion and the steroid scandal that continues to haunt major league baseball

News item: This week, Yum Brands Inc. will ban smoking in its KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. No-smoking signs will be posted at all 1,200 KFC and 1,675 Pizza Hut restaurants owned by Yum. The 8,800 outlets owned by franchisees will make that call for themselves

Caplan discusses how it is possible that science finds itself stuck in the middle of the Intelligent Design debate in twenty-first century America. He finds it important to debate Intelligent Design for the sake of educating Americans about the nature of science and scientific discourse

People who don't tell the truth are very good at lying to your face. Anyone who has watched the truth-shaving of such well-known confabulators as Ken Lay, Bill Clinton, Bernard Ebbers and Charles Keating knows what I mean. Baltimore Oriole slugger Rafael Palmeiro apparently has joined the ranks of those who will be remembered as being good at delivering the big lie

[...]he asserts vociferously and creatively in this book that it is by seeking to adopt a human-rights framework that bioethics can secure justice -- both for those whose needs for basic health care are unmet and for those for whom hard choices must be made about when and how to use expensive medical technologies

A tearful memorial service was held Tuesday in Mountain View, Calif., for Thomas Herrion, 23, an offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers football team. The service drew more than 500 people, including the commissioner of the National Football League, Paul Tagliabue, and many other NFL officials and coaches. Their grief for the loss of this young athlete was sincere. But the NFL does not seem to have gotten one message it needs to learn from Herrion's death: Players in the NFL have gotten too fat

Now the airwaves and blogs are bursting with debates about whether [Rafael Palmeiro] has succeeded in lying his way right out of Cooperstown. There is, however, a much bigger and more fundamental ethical question raised by the Palmeiro implosion and the steroid scandal that continues to haunt major league baseball

Caplan reviews The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do about It by Marcia Angell; On the Take: How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health by Jerome P. Kassirer; and Powerful Medicines: The Benefits, Risks, and Costs of Prescription Drugs by Jerry Avorn