Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science articles from July 2001

Journal of the Alabama Academy of Science archives from July 2001

Bioethics Symposium Auburn University, March 30, 2001.(Brief Article)
July 1, 2001... Introduction Why is a biologist introducing a symposium whose contributors are all philosophers? In fact, what is a symposium on bioethics doing on the program for the Alabama Academy of Science at all rather than, say, a symposium on The...

Justice and Health Care delivery.
July 1, 2001... G. H. T. Kimball of the Twentieth Century Fund wrote: "It is bad enough that a man should be ignorant, for this cuts him off from the commerce of men's minds. It is perhaps worse that a man should be poor, for this condemns him to a life of...

Justice, disadvantage, and allocation of health resources: Aside from influence on health, should general disadvantage matter?
July 1, 2001... In the United States health arena, many agree that there is a pressing need for a universal system that provides everyone with preventive health measures and health care for serious health problems. (1) Good moral arguments support establishing...

What standard for the standard HMO gatekeeper?
July 1, 2001... In 1998, the United States devoted 14% of its Gross National Product (GNP) to health care, twice what it spent on national defense. (1) It is estimated that the U.S. will expend over 1.7 trillion dollars or over 18% of the GNP on health care...

Diehard: The legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
July 1, 2001... From 1932 to 1972, the Public Health Service conducted a study of over 400 African American men with untreated syphilis in Macon County, Alabama at the John Andrews Hospital on the campus of Tuskegee University. (1) This study, better known as...

What can genetic engineering accomplish?
July 1, 2001... ABSTRACT Many arguments critical of genetic engineering presuppose that it is capable of creating individuals of a specified type or with particular qualities. Recent investigations of neural development yield data which reveal that there...

Science and culture interfacing: The human genome project. (Book Review).(Controlling Our Destinies - Historical, Philosophical Ethical, and Theoiogical Perspectives on the Human Genome Project)
July 1, 2001... Controlling Our Destinies - Historical, Philosophical Ethical, and Theoiogical Perspectives on the Human Genome Project, Phillip R. Sloan, ed. 535 pp. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Publication of this multi-authored...