Human growth hormone and the temptations of biomedical enhancement

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Three forms of biomedical enhancement are identified: repair, normalization, and performance edge, using human growth hormone cases as illustration. It is posited that individual and social goals that permeate American society provide inducements for such enhancement; the health and ethical implications are discussed.

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Individual identity and organisational control: Empowerment and Modernisation in a Primary Care Trust

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A critique is presented of employee empowerment programs, which can instead increase organizational control via shaping employee identities. The impact on the processes used by individuals in forming themselves as ethical persons, such as self-constraint and self-definition, is examined.

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Empty ethics: the problem with informed consent

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The article critiques the bioethical framework on which human subject participation in clinical drug trials is governed. The author argues that this ethical framework abstracts the consent process from its social and clinical setting.

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