Brave New World
SIRS Articles
The following articles were found in SIRS Researcher and SIRS Government Reporter. Descriptors/subject headings consulted included various combinations of the following:
birth defects people with disabilities
medical ethics quality of life
parent and child (law) genetic screening
decision making, moral and ethical aspects
infants, death genetic disorders
infants, mortality prenatal diagnosis
infanticide neonatal intensive care
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Title: Life and Death and the Handicapped Newborn
Source: Issues in Law & Medicine
Author: C. Everett Koop
Publication Date: Summer 1989
Page Number: pp.101-113
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Life in the Balance
Source: Indianapolis Star (Indianapolis, IN)
Author: Richard D. Walton
Publication Date: June 20, 1993
Page Number: p.A1+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Endurance Test
Source: Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
Author: Thomas J. Moore
Publication Date: April 4, 1993
Page Number: p.Mag. Sec. 6+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Hush Little Baby, Don't Get Sick
Source: State Legislatures
Author: Dianna Gordon
Publication Date: Sept. 1994
Page Number: p.20+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Harvesting Lives
Source: Miami Herald (Miami, FL)
Author: Sydney P. Freedberg
Publication Date: Sept. 21, 1997
Page Number: p.1A+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Eugenics, American Style: The Abortion of Down Syndrome Babies
Source: Weekly Standard
Author: Tucker Carlson
Publication Date: Dec. 2, 1996
Page Number: pp.20-25
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Beyond Abortion
Source: Maclean's (Toronto, Canada)
Author: Chris Wood and others
Publication Date: Aug. 19, 1996
Page Number: pp.14-21
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Tough Calls
Source: American Health
Author: Nancy Wartik
Publication Date: March 1992
Page Number: pp.58-62
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: The Ethics of Caring for Conjoined Twins: The Lakeberg Twins
Source: Hastings Center Report
Author: David C. Thomasma and others
Publication Date: July/Aug. 1996
Page Number: pp.4-12
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Prenatal Genetic Testing: 3 Families, 3 Decisions
Source: USA Today
Author: Kim Painter
Publication Date: Aug. 18, 1997
Page Number: pp.6D-7D
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Ferreting Out Flawed Embryos
Source: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
Author: Lisa M. Krieger
Publication Date: March 12, 2002
Page Number: p.1F+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Who Lives? Who Dies?
Source: Christian Century
Author: Mark Oppenheimer
Publication Date: July 3-10, 2002
Page Number: pp.24-29
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Superimposition of Being: The Collision of Maternal and Fetal Rights
Source: Pharos
Author: Stuart James Kolner
Publication Date: Spring 1990
Page Number: pp.34-37
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Teens Explore Ethics of Scientific Breakthroughs in New Curriculum
Source: Gannett News Service
Author: Derrick DePledge
Publication Date: July 12, 1999
Page Number: n.p.
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: The Future of Medicine: Good Eggs, Bad Eggs
Source: Time
Author: Frederic Golden
Publication Date: Jan. 11, 1999
Page Number: pp.56-59
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Doctors' Abortion Choices: An Ethical Dilemma for Healers
Source: The Record (Hackensack, NJ)
Author: Ruth Padawer
Publication Date: Jan. 22, 1995
Page Number: p.A1+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Whose Right to Die?
Source: Atlantic Monthly
Author: Ezekiel Emanuel
Publication Date: March 1997
Page Number: pp.73-79
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Which Babies?
Source: Tikkun
Author: Shelley Burtt
Publication Date: Jan./Feb. 2001
Page Number: pp.45-47
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Making Responsible Decisions: An Interpretive Ethic for Genetic...
Source: Hastings Center Report
Author: Mary Terrell White
Publication Date: Jan./Feb. 1999
Page Number: pp.14-21
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: The Hardest Decision a Mother Could Make
Source: McCall's
Author: Mary Ellin Barrett
Publication Date: March 1992
Page Number: p.44+
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: The Precautions of Prenatal Testing
Source: Priorities for Health
Author: Esther Kazilimani
Publication Date: Winter 1990
Page Number: pp.21-23
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
Title: Sickest Babies Force Life and Death Decisions
Source: Cincinnati Enquirer (Cincinnati, OH)
Author: Debra Jasper
Publication Date: Dec. 24, 2003
Page Number: n.p.
Database: SIRS Researcher
Service: SIRS Knowledge Source <http://www.sirs.com>
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Books
General Reference
BIOMEDICAL
- Encyclopedia of Bioethics (©1998)- REF 174.2 ENC
- Ethics and Values - REF 170.3 ETH
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology (©1987 + yearbooks 1999, 2000) - Ref 503 McG
- Biomedical ethics: opposing viewpoints - 174 BIO
- Control of Life - the 21st Century - 574.8 WAR
- Human life: controversies and concerns - 179 HUM
EUTHANASIA
- Control of Life - the 21st Century - 574.8 WAR
- Death is a noun - 128 LAN
- Human life: controversies and concerns - 179 HUM
GENETIC ENGINEERING
- Altered Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of human life - 616.042 LYO
- Biotechnology - 660.6 BIO
- Genetic Engineering - 174 GEN
- Genetic Engineering - 575.2 STW
- Genome: the autobiography of a species in 23 chapters - 599.93 RID
- Medical Ethics - 174 HEI
- Recent Revolutions in Biology - 574 COR
- Science Ethics - 174 NEW
Other Online Resources
- Encyclopedia Britannica - check with the library staff for home use passwords
- World Book Online - Also access this product from home using your Kansas Library Card.
- *Health Reference Center Academic (all manner of health, fitness, nutrition topics) Info Access this database remotely using your Kansas Library Card.
- *Health and Wellness Resource Center (additional reference book and newspaper content not available in Health Reference Center Academic) Info Access this database remotely using your Kansas Library Card.
- Human Genome Project - Ethical, Legal and Social Issues http://www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/elsi/elsi.html A Project of the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health.
WHS Library home page.