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After World War II, the U.S. government invested an enormous amount of money in medicine; medical research, medical procedures and medical technologies. This investment made contemporary scientific medicine into American medicine, characterized by a continuing flow of new treatment possibilities. These advances raised all kinds of ethical questions. Some were personal and individual, others were social and political. Both type questions are addressed by a new academic discipline called bioethics. The first attempt to develop a scientific medicine took place in Greece in the 5th century B.C. It was called Hippocratic medicine. Closely linked with this first scientific medicine was...

LAGOS, Nigeria — A modern Lazarus miracle caused city-wide revival in this nation's capital city, but the man at the center of it is anything but happy. "I'd like 15 minutes in a room with brass knuckles and that idiot Famuel," said David LaPonte, 43, the revived man. "I don't give a [care] about my witness." Evangelist Nguno Famuel prayed over LaPonte's casket during a crusade meeting in mid-June. LaPonte had died from severe dysentery. Famuel thought LaPonte would rejoice at being revived, but he sat up and looked around and seemed crestfallen. His first words were, "What the ...?...