The Therapy Is Ineffective Or Unethical?

testing on children is equivalent to caging a wild animal. Groups such as the SPCA and PETA dedicate their time to protecting animals while parents allow their children to replace the animals in testing clinics. Clinical testing on children is unethical and there needs to be a stop to further testing. Parents make the decision to put their children into these clinical trials without the child’s say and the drugs react differently in children's undeveloped bodies and can cause excruciating pain.

Resuscitate” Without Patient Consent? looks at the issues of withholding life-sustaining therapies, such as CPR, in cases where these therapies will only prolong the suffering of the patient. Manthous begins his argument by stating that CPR, which is often ineffective, remains the only medical procedure in cases of cardiac arrest. Manthous goes on to state that a doctor issuing a “Do Not Resuscitate” order unilaterally is unethical, as it deprives the patient of their right to self-determination. Only after

Gene therapy for cystic fibrosis (CF) is the introduction/addition of normal (wild-type) copy of the CFTR gene/allele to the genome of a person/organism carrying defective/abnormal copies of the gene, done so for the purpose of compensating for the abnormal gene or replacing proteins that the patient cannot produce, thereby correcting the disease conditions created by the faulty gene(s). It is an experimental technique that uses genes to treat or prevent disease.   A transgene is a gene that has

psychology? Provide an example of a situation that could be legal but unethical. Explain your response. There are many legal issues that exist in clinical psychology. Two of these legal issues are maintaining confidentiality and getting written consent to treat. A clinical psychologist is required by law to obtain the patients written consent before treating them or before any

What Conversation Therapy Actually Does While reading “Hard Rock Return to Prison” by Etheridge Knight one may start to think of the effects of correcting or convert someone’s behavior to a more “favorable” one. This idea is present in today’s society and to better understand this believe and practice one will have to explore the psychology of conversion therapy. Conversion Therapy or reparative therapy is a “range of dangerous and discredited practices that falsely claim to change a person’s sexual

experimentation that would be considered unethical if it were performed on humans. Having a restrictive federal policy would eliminate the unethical destruction of blastocyst that is required to extract ESCs and it would push the scientific community to find other means to provide cells with the equivalent or sufficient potential to attenuate or cure disease, such as induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC). Moreover, a restrictive policy would also terminate the unethical experimentation that embryos and fetuses

Animal testing. Millions of animals are used in cruel scientific experiments annually to test the effectiveness of consumer products and their ingredients. Because animal testing can result in failure, has much cheaper alternatives, and is highly unethical, it should be eradicated from our common experimental practices. There are cases where animal testing has resulted in a failure and negatively affected humans. For example, a drug known as TGN1412 was tested on a wide variety of animals including

Homosexuality reorientation therapy is a controversial topic. Its effectiveness as well as the ethics involved stir up much debate. Since homosexuality is not an illness, "The American Psychological Association reiterated the ‘long-standing official position that homosexuality and bisexuality are not mental disorders, (APA, 1998)" (Slife, 2004), can it be treated? If it can, how, and under what circumstances it should be used, are important questions. Before discussing treatment, original orientation

sickle cell to malaria, diseases must be cured with new advanced technologies like Crispr and gene therapy; these methods are just as safe as the current methods that are ineffective. The way we currently view the newer methods of gene therapy or genetic engineering in humans makes it seem as if these technologies are subpar and unsafe to use. Many experts have called change to the genome in a human unethical and a breach of nature’s course. This is an extremely hypocritical way of looking at health technology

The Legality of Conversion Therapy The issues surrounding sexuality and gender nonconforming individuals in the United States have played an increasingly large role in modern politics since the mid-20th century. These issues, commonly referred to LGBT rights, directly affect the lives of a vast number of American citizens and, as such, any legislation addressing these issues is public policy. The growing demand for equality among the LGBT community has resulted in a number of Supreme Court cases