Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America
Author: Wesley J. Smith Retail Price: $16.95 Our Price: $12.99
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When his teenage son Christopher, brain-damaged in an auto accident, developed a 106-degree fever after weeks of unconsciousness, John Campbell asked the attending physician for help. The doctor's response: Why bother? The boy's life was effectively over. Campbell refused to accept this death sentence. He threatened legal action and the doctor finally relented. With treatment, Christopher's temperature subsided almost immediately. Soon he regained consciousness and today he is learning to walk again. This story is one of many Wesley J. Smith recounts in this deeply felt but coolly argued book. Smith goes behind the scenes of our health care system to show how a new, self-proclaimed elite of 'bioethicists' threatens patient welfare by undermining the Hippocratic Oath. In the new worldview of bioethics, 'death' is being redefined to include 'irreversible' coma. The case is being made for organ harvesting from the terminally ill and disabled. Cognitively disabled patients are dehydrated to death by having their tube-supplied food and water withheld. Animals receive greater protection in medical experiments than people. After reading this book, it will be hard to disagree with Wesley Smith's contention that we stand at a medical and cultural crossroads and that we must embrace a new bioethics of human rights if we are to reassert the sanctity of life.
