a new view of drug addiction - page 862

There is a genetic link between chemical imbalances and drug dependency, therefore persons with family members that are dependent on drugs will be much more susceptible to drug addiction.

Compulsory AIDS testing - page 774

AIDS testing should be mandatory for all health care workers.

Denied access to health care.

In some instances, Doctors should deny patients access to healthcare if their lifestyle is the cause of the health issue. For example, if a patient has lung cancer caused from years of inhaling toxic carcinogens in cigarette smoke, he/she should not receive treatment unless they quit smoking first.

dieting

Since our bodies require fat, carbohydrates and protein in order to function properly, diets such as the Atkins, which limits your carb intake, the Beverly Hills diet, that limits your protein, low fat diets and other diets that restrict certain food groups should not be used to maintain proper body weight. In fact the only way to maintain proper body weight is to restrict the amount of food consumed.

Enzyme regulation - page 603

Sometimes while being treated for one particular disease or ailment a patient may inadvertently provide doctors and scientist with answers solving another medical dilemma. The question is who should benefit (economically) from this discovery, the patient whose body may have held the answer of the doctor/scientist that discovered it while treating the patient? Further, what ethical dilemmas could occur if we begin to reward people for simply having a biological anomaly?

biological warfare - page 653

Research associated with growing and culturing disease causing organisms that could be used for biological warfare should be banned.

Tissue transplants - page 560

There is a hospital in Halifax that is transplanting brain tissue from aborted fetuses into Parkinson's patients, it is believed that transplants from healthy insulin producing cells cultured in the lab may hold the key to curing diabetes, Scientists are fusing healthy white blood cells with cancerous cells to produce mass quantities of antibodies. These are just few examples of where Cell research is moving into an area where long range consequences have not been considered. It stands then, that a private body, representing community values, should be established to oversee the technological applications of cell biology..

Performance Enhancing Drugs in Athletic competitions. Page 586

Major Athletic competitions such as the Olympics have become meaningless because of some althletes' use of performance enhancing drugs.