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  • Who Says You're Dead?

  • Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned
  • By: Jacob M. Appel MD
  • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
  • Length: 8 hrs
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (4 ratings)

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Who Says You're Dead?

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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.
©2019 Jacob M. Appel (P)2019 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Bullet points, lacks depth or analysis

With each topic being around 5 mins long, there is no depth or analysis. Was hoping to be presented with ethical and moral viewpoints perhaps which I had not considered myself. Instead, it's basically a list of facts, e.g X number of people have this, Y percentage of hospitals do that. Factual infotainment is different to moral & ethical considerations. I'm certain the author is more than capable of presenting the latter. Not here, however.

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