Current Treatment Strategies for Parkinson's Disease; Are the costs to the community of developing new treatment strategies justified?

Discuss current treatment strategies for Parkinson's disease. How can the patient's quality of life be preserved? Are costs to the community of developing these new treatment strategies justified? Justify your answer. Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disease, which is caused by a loss of dopamine producing cells in the brain . The disease is progressive and debilitating and is outwardly manifested in tremors, stiffness and rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability. The disease affects everyone differently, that is, …

…question the community must face, is whether the development of effective treatment or even a cure for PD warrants the condoning stem cell research. A utilitarian perspective may identify the loss of one potential life to save millions of others to make 'human embryonic stem cell' research justifiable. However the converse of this is that, there is nothing that justifies the termination of human life, where the embryo is considered to be human. (pro-life perspective)