| "Doctor, would you prescribe a pill to help me … ?" a national survey of physicians on using medicine for human enhancement. | |
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PMID: 21240795 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Using medical advances to enhance human athletic, aesthetic, and cognitive performance, rather than to treat disease, has been controversial. Little is known about physicians' experiences, views, and attitudes in this regard. We surveyed a national sample of physicians to determine how often they prescribe enhancements, their views on using medicine for enhancement, and whether they would be willing to prescribe a series of potential interventions that might be considered enhancements. We find that many physicians occasionally prescribe enhancements, but doctors hold nuanced and ambiguous views of these issues. Most express concerns about the potential effects of enhancements on social equity, yet many also believe specific enhancements that are safe and effective should be available but not covered by insurance. These apparently contradictory views might reflect inherent tensions between the values of equity and liberty, which could make crafting coherent social policies on medical enhancements challenging. [Supplementary materials are available for this article. Go to the publisher's online edition of American Journal of Bioethics for the following free supplemental resource(s): An additional table (Table 5) referred to on p. 5]. |
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Timothy D Hotze; Kavita Shah; Emily E Anderson; Matthew K Wynia |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: The American journal of bioethics : AJOB Volume: 11 ISSN: 1536-0075 ISO Abbreviation: Am J Bioeth Publication Date: 2011 Jan |
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Created Date: 2011-01-17 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 100898738 Medline TA: Am J Bioeth Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 3-13 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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American Medical Association, The Institute for Ethics. |
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