Eileen L Daniel

Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society

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The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an "Exploring the Issue" section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, Additional Resources, and Internet References. Go to the Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/takingsides and click on "Explore this Collection" to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Daniel: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society, 14/e book here http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1260579816 for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections.

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• Verlag: McGraw Hill LLC
• 14th edition
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 213mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781260579819
• ISBN-10: 1260579816
• Artikelnr.: 56019404

Inhaltsangabe

Unit 1: Health and Society
Issue: Should the U.S. Adopt a Single-Price Health Care?
Yes: Paul S. Hewitt and Phillip Longman, from "The Case for Single-Price
Health Care," Washington Monthly (2018)
No: Adam Barsouk, from "The Case Against Single-Payer Health Care," In
Training: Stories from Tomorrow's Physicians (2018)
Economic advisor to the Council for Affordable Health Coverage Paul S.
Hewitt and senior editor of Washington Monthly Phillip Longman maintain
that by making Medicare access universal, the United States could solve its
health care cost and access crisis. Adam Barsouk, currently a medical
student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University, argues
that the increase in taxes to fund universal coverage would negatively
impact economic growth and development.
Issue: Are Vaccines Safe and Beneficial?
Yes: Stephen M. Perle, from "War Without End: The Case for Vaccination,"
Chiropractic Economics (2017)
No: Timothy Perenich, from "We Are Not Told...The Case against
Vaccination," Chiropractic Economics (2017)
Professor and chiropractor Stephen M. Perle believes that the evidence is
incontrovertible that vaccines are beneficial. Chiropractor Timothy
Perenich disagrees and claims that many vaccines have harmful side effects
and are not totally effective in preventing disease.
Unit 2: Mind-Body Relationships
Issue: Should Addiction to Drugs Be Labeled a Brain Disease?
Yes: Alan I. Leshner, from "Addiction Is a Brain Disease," The Addiction
Recovery Guide (2016)
No: Steven Slate, from "Addiction Is Not a Brain Disease, It Is a Choice,"
The Clean Slate (2016)
Alan I. Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the
National Institutes of Health, believes that addiction to drugs and alcohol
is not a behavioral condition but a treatable disease. Addiction theorist
Steven Slate counters that addiction is a personal choice and cannot be
considered a brain disease.
Issue: Is the Use of "Smart" Pills for Cognitive Enhancement Dangerous?
Yes: Alan Schwarz, from "Drowned in a Stream of Prescriptions," The New
York Times (2013)
No: Phil Taylor, from "Think Positive: The Rise of 'Smart Drugs,'" PMLive
(2013)
Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Alan Schwartz maintains that "smart
pills" such as Adderall can significantly improve the lives of children and
others with ADHD but that too many young adults who do not have the
condition fake the symptoms and get prescriptions for the highly addictive
and dangerous drug. Journalist Phil Taylor disagrees and claims that smart
drugs are safe and effective in boosting cognition.
Unit 3: Sexuality and Gender Issues
Issue: Does Alcohol Consumption Increase the Risk for Breast Cancer?
Yes: Stephanie Mencimer, from "Bottled Up," Mother Jones (2018)
No: Gary Schwitzer, from "Today's Alcohol and Breast Cancer Headlines Are
Wrong: Here's How News Reports Could Have Done Better," Health News Review
(2017)
Reporter and breast cancer survivor Stephanie Mencimer believes that
drinking may have caused her cancer but that the alcohol industry worked
hard to downplay the risk. Publisher and journalist Gary Schwitzer argues
that there is no conclusive proof that alcohol causes breast cancer as most
of the studies are observational.
Issue: Does Watching Pornography Lead to Sexual Dysfunction?
Yes: Philip Zimbardo, Gary Wilson, and Nikita Coulombe, from "How Porn Is
Messing with Your Manhood," Skeptic (2016)
No: Marty Klein, from "Skeptical of the Porn Skeptics," Skeptic (2016)
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo and writers Gary Wilson and Nikita Coulombe
argue that watching pornography, especially by young men, can lead to
sexual dysfunction with a partner. Sex therapist Marty Klein counters that
while young men may be getting some wrong ideas about sex from porn, they
don't appear to suffer sexual dysfunction.
Issue: Should Embryos Produced During IVF Be Considered Children?
Yes: Thomas Brejcha et al., from "Brief of Amici Curiae Missouri Right to
Life, Lawyers for Life, and American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians
& Gynecologists," Gadberry v. McQueen, Missouri Court of Appeals (2015)
No: Joseph J. Kodner and John M. Faust, from "Brief of Amicus Curiae
American Society for Reproductive Medicine in Support of Respondent,"
Gadberry v. McQueen, Missouri Court of Appeals (2016)
In a friend-of-the-court brief submitted in a recent case in Missouri
involving a dispute over embryos that a couple had put into storage,
lawyers for the American Society for Reproductive Medicine argue that
embryos are not persons and that treating them as such would have a
profound negative effect on people who seek medical assistance in building
their families. In a friend-of-the-court brief on the other side of the
same case, lawyers representing several organizations that are opposed to
abortion argue that science proves straightforwardly that embryos are
persons and that the embryos in the Missouri custody dispute should be
given to the parent who seeks to take care of them.
Issue: Is Gene-Editing of Human Embryos Coming Soon?
Yes: Antonio Regalado, from "Engineering the Perfect Baby," MIT Technology
Review (2015)
No: Elizabeth McNally, from "Testimony before the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Subcommittee
on Research and Technology, Hearing on 'The Science and Ethics of
Genetically Engineered Human DNA,'" U.S. House of Representatives (2015)
Antonio Regalado describes recent progress in using the new CRISPR
technology to edit the genes of mammalian cells, including embryos. He
argues that although many people involved in the research are cautious,
what was until recently only a theoretical possibility is now a very real
possibility. We are very close to being able to engineer the genes of human
embryos (for a variety of reasons), and most people have no idea of what is
coming. Elizabeth McNally agrees that the technology is developing rapidly
and has much to offer but is more reserved in her evaluation. She argues
that it is necessary to regulate the technology and its uses, including
limiting or prohibiting uses where changes would be passed to the next
generation. However, "the justified use of this approach is certainly
conceivable and may one day be appropriate."
Unit 4: Public Health Issues
Issue: Will Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) Negatively Affect Human Health
and the Environment?
Yes: John Rumpler, from "Fracking: Pro and Con," Tufts Now (2013)
No: Bruce McKenzie Everett, from "Fracking: Pro and Con," Tufts Now (2013)
Environmentalist and senior attorney for Environment America John Rumpler
argues that fracking is not worth the damage to health and the environment.
Energy researcher and adjunct professor Bruce McKenzie Everett claims
fracking provides substantial economic benefits and its health and
environmental problems are relatively small.
Issue: Can Vaccines Cause Autism?
Yes: Arjun Walia, from "Scientific Evidence Suggests the Vaccine-Autism
Link Can No Longer Be Ignored," Collective Evolution (2013)
No: Harriet Hall, from "Vaccines and Autism: A Deadly Manufactroversy,"
Skeptic (2009)
Arjun Walia argues that the scientific consensus on the safety of vaccines
may be suspect because "the corporate media is owned by the major vaccine
manufacturers." He describes 22 studies that suggest that the connection
between childhood vaccines and autism is real or that suggest possible
mechanisms for the connection. Harriet Hall argues that the controversy
over whether vaccines cause autism has been manufactured by dishonest,
self-serving researchers and physicians, ignorant celebrities, conspiracy
theorists, and the media. The result is a resurgence of preventable
diseases and childhood deaths. Vaccines save lives. Autism's causes are
probably genetic.
Issue: Should Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes Be Released into the
Environment to Fight Disease?
Yes: Hadyn Parry, from "Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Hearing on 'Science of Zika:
The DNA of an Epidemic,'" U.S. House of Representatives (2016)
No: Eric Hoffman, from "Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes in the U.S.,"
Friends of the Earth (2012)
Hadyn Parry argues that genetically engineered mosquitoes hold the
potential to reduce mosquito populations and control the spread of diseases
such as Zika and dengue. Eric Hoffman, a biotechnology campaigner with
Friends of the Earth, argues that a great deal of research remains to be
done to prove the safety to both the environment and public health of
releasing genetically engineered mosquitoes. In addition, medical ethics
require that participants in a medical trial must be able to opt out at any
time, which means that a single resident of a release area must be able to
call a halt to the release program.
Unit 5: Consumer Health
Issue: Does Obesity Increase the Risk of Premature Death?
Yes: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, from "As Overweight and
Obesity Increase, So Does Risk of Dying Prematurely," Harvard T.H. Chan S
chool of Public Health (2016)
No: Harriet Brown, from "The Weight of the Evidence," Medical Examiner
(2015)
The editors of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health argue that
being overweight or obese is clearly associated with a higher risk of dying
prematurely than being normal weight. Writer Harriet Brown maintains that
obese individuals with chronic diseases fare better and live longer than
those of normal weight.
Issue: Are Restrictions on Sugar and Sugary Beverages Justified?
Yes: Nick Gillespie, from "The Man Who Hated Carbs Before It Was Cool,"
Reason (2018)
No: Kenneth W. Krause, from "Saving Us from Sweets: This Is Science and
Government on Sugar," Skeptical Inquirer (2012)
Writer Nick Gillespie interviewed science writer Gary Taubes who maintains
that added sugars and sweeteners pose dangers to health and contribute to
majors diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Journalist Kenneth W.
Krause argues that individuals have the ability to make decisions about
sugar consumption themselves and that government should not restrict our
access to sugar and sugar-containing food products.
Issue: Does Early Introduction of Food Reduce the Risk of Food Allergy?
Yes: Debra J. Palmer and Susan L. Prescott, from "Early Introduction of
Food Reduces Food Allergy - Pro," Pediatric Allergy & Immunology (2017)
No: Michael R. Perkin, from "Early Introduction of Food Reduces Food
Allergy - Con," Pediatric Allergy & Immunology (2017)
Professors Debra J. Palmer and Susan L. Prescott maintain that infants
should be fed 'more allergenic' foods such as peanuts to help prevent the
development of food allergies. Researcher Michael R. Perkin disagrees and
claims that the research on benefits of early introduction of allergenic
foods is limited and inconclusive.
Issue: Should Genetically Modified Foods Be Labeled?
Yes: Todd Daloz, from "Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, Hearing on 'A
National Framework for the Review and Labeling of Biotechnology in Food,'"
U.S. House of Representatives (2015)
No: L. Val Giddings, from "Testimony before the U.S. House of
Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health,
Hearing on 'A National Framework for the Review and Labeling of
Biotechnology in Food,'" U.S. House of Representatives (2015)
Todd Daloz argues that Vermont's legislation requiring labeling of
genetically modified crops (GMOs) is amply justified by the public's need
for factual information about the food they eat and that federal preemption
of state labeling laws, without providing a suitable substitute, is
unreasonable. L. Val Giddings argues that there is no scientific doubt that
GMO crops are safe to eat, the federal government already has sufficient
authority to regulate the sale and labeling of GMO foods, and the push for
labeling laws is a thinly disguised effort to ban GMOs in favor of less
safe and more expensive alternatives such as organic foods.