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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.
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About Jacob M. Appel
Jacob M. Appel is the author of many novels and short story collections, including The Man Who Wouldn’t Stand Up, Scouting for the Reaper, Phoning Home, and Einstein’s Beach House. His fiction has appeared in many literary journals and has, among other honors, won both the Boston Review Short Fiction Competition and the William Faulkner–William Wisdom Competition. He has taught most recently at Brown University, the Gotham Writers’ Workshop, and Yeshiva College in New York City, where he was the writer-in-residence.
About Jonathan Yen
Jonathan Yen is a commercial voice-over artist and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator. He was inspired by the Golden Age of Radio, and while the gold was gone by the time he got there, he has carried that inspiration through to commercial work, voice acting, and stage productions. From vintage Howard Fast science fiction to naturalist Paul Rosolie’s true adventures in the Amazon, he loves to tell a good story.