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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Human Cost of In Vitro Fertilization Technique - H.A. NIELSEN“The individual who is a servant of technique,” Jacques Ellul writes, “must be completely unconscious of himself.” Read more... The Obama Stem Cell Darkness - Father Tadeusz PacholczykPresident Obama, on March 9, 2009, signed an important executive order that vastly expanded federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research and crossed a significant and troubling ethical line. Read more... The Pain of the Almost Dead - SUSAN MARTINUKJust how dead is “brain-dead”? The answer isn’t as simple as one might think. Read more... The perils of dishonest science - Margaret SomervilleWe all—physicians and patients—must face up to our unavoidable ignorance on medical issues, and still try to make wise decisions. Read more... The Permanent Limitations of Biology - Leon R. Kass, M.D.How far can biology take us? Are there limits on what it can know or on what it may enable us to do? Read more... The Pill Turns 50: Medicine That Makes You Sick - Robert F. Conkling, M.D.Recently three major health stories appeared in the Washington press in less than two weeks that were an occasion to pause and reflect. Read more... The Point of a Ban - Gilbert MeilaenderTo explore the logic and make sense of a ban on stem cell research is my aim here. Since many parties to the debate claim, at least, to agree that the embryo should be treated with “respect,” it may be fruitful to explore other issues — in particular, the nature of moral reasoning and the background beliefs that underlie such reasoning. I propose to take a very long way round. Our understanding of what is at stake can be sharpened if we begin not with stem cell research but with a quite different moral question. Read more... The truth about embryonic stem cell (ESC) therapies - Ryan T. AndersonThe truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting out. Read more... The Truth About Stem Cells: An interview with Dr. David Prentice - Kathryn Jean LopezDavid Prentice, professor of life sciences at Indiana State University and an adjunct professor of medical & molecular genetics at the Indiana University School of Medicine, explains why human embryonic stem-cell research is illegal, immoral, and unnecessary. Read more... The U.N. on Cloning: Ban It - Wesley J. SmithThe United Nations Declaration on Human Cloning is a breakthrough document with enormous potential to lead to tremendous human good. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 08-Mar-2011 - 18:33:33
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