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Klappentext The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style forma designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create or you can search by topic! author! or keywords. Each Taking Sides issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes! an Issue Summary! an Introduction! and an "Exploring the Issue" section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection! Is There Common Ground?! Additional Resources! and Internet References. Go to the Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/takingsides and click on "Explore this Collection" to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course! or access and select the entire Daniel: Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society! 13/e book here http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1259904024 for an easy! pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections. Inhaltsverzeichnis Unit 1: The Health Care Industry Issue: Is the Affordable Care Act Successful? Yes: Jared Bernstein, from "The Success of the Affordable Care Act Is a Hugely Inconvenient Truth for its Opponents," Washington Post (2015) No: Kevin D. Williamson, from "Obamacare Is Dead," National Review (2015) Senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and author Jared Bernstein believes the Affordable Care Act is the best hope Americans have for making our health care system better. National Review roving correspondent Kevin D. Williamson argues that the Affordable Care Act has not worked since its design was seriously flawed. Issue: Should the Health Care System Continuously Strive to Extend Life? Yes: Miguel Faria, from "Bioethics and Why I Hope to Live Beyond Age 75 Attaining Wisdom!-A Rebuttal to Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's 75 Age Limit," haciendapublishing.com (2014) No: Ezekiel J. Emanuel, from "Why I Hope to Die at 75: An Argument That Society and Families-and You-Will Be Better Off if Nature Takes Its Course Swiftly and Promptly," The Atlantic (2014) Physician Miguel Faria contends that lives can be productive and fulfilling and worthwhile past age 75 and that there is a difference between aging and infirmity and illness. Physician, bioethicist, and vice provost of the University of Pennsylvania Ezekiel J. Emanuel disagrees and claims that society and families would be better off if we died at 75 rather than be incapacitated and unable to live a full life. Issue: Does the Affordable Health Care Act Violate Religious Freedom by Requiring Employers' Health Insurance Plans to Cover Birth Control? Yes: Wesley J. Smith, from "What About Religious Freedom: The Other Consequences of Obamacare," The Weekly Standard (2012) No: Elizabeth Sepper and Alisha Johnson, from "Rhetoric versus Reality: The Contraception Benefit and Religious Freedom," religionandpolitics.org (2013) Senior fellow in the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism Wesley J. Smith believes birth control cases are just the beginning of far more intrusive violations of religious liberty to come, for example, requiring businesses to provide free abortions to their employees. Law professor Elizabeth Sepper and research assistant and law student Alisha Johnson counter that the Affordable Care Act strikes a delicate balance by providing broad protection for religiously affiliated employers, while at the same time it protects the freedom of all Americans to live out their own religious and moral convictions. Unit 2: Health a...
