Medicine Goes to the Dogs

摘要

There Are People―You've Met Them―Who love their pets far more than many parents love their children. Don't mock them. Don't pity them. Be grate-fill. Odds are their veterinarians will play a bigger role in saving your life―or the life of your sick child―than your own doctor. Veterinarians for pampered pets will soon be in the vanguard of human health care, and the reason is regulatory. Controversial restrictions on embryonic-stem-cell research and cloning effectively squelch efforts to bring these biotechnologies to bear on human therapies. The moral quandaries and bioethical concerns underlying these restrictions can't be dismissed. But the different standards we apply to animals create provocative loopholes for the innovative and opportunistic biomedical entrepreneur.