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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Biotech New World - Wesley J. SmithThe theme of Brave New World is not the advancement of science as such," Aldous Huxley wrote in the foreword to a new 1946 edition of his groundbreaking novel, but rather "the advancement of science as it affects human individuals." Email This Article Bodies in Plastic - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykAn exhibit called "Body Worlds" is currently touring the United States and generating some animated discussion in its wake. Email This Article Bodies Without Souls - Dennis TetiThe book’s title, Body Bazaar, is a pun on the strangeness of how elements of the human body — DNA, umbilical cord blood, embryos, bone, tissue — have become products for a burgeoning global biotechno-mart. For doctors harvesting human tissue, the body has become (changing the metaphor) a “gold mine.” Email This Article Brave New Genetic World - Stacy MattinglyEven human embryonic stem-cell research, the most morally problematic to date of all the new reproductive technologies, has a huge cadre of advocates who look to stem-cell therapy to cure a wide range of degenerative disabilities. That is where the brave new genetic world we have built on IVF technology starts to look scary. Email This Article Can Frozen Embryos Be Saved? - Grace MacKinnonIf we believe – and rightly so – that it is wrong to use human embryos for experimental research, then what is it that we believe should be done with these often-unwanted frozen children? What happens to them? Email This Article Clone the French! - Wesley J. SmithBig News! The French parliament just passed the Brownback-Landrieu Bill outlawing all human cloning. Email This Article Cloning at the Crossroads of Humankind - Nigel M. de S. CameronThe world changed when it was announced in February of 1997 that scientists working for a private research institute in my former homeland of Scotland had cloned a sheep. The world was taken by total surprise. Technology first, typically by surprise; ethics and policy later, if at all. Four years later, here in the U.S. we still have no policy. There are few more worrying facts in the modern world. Let me offer three comments. Email This Article Couples Ask: What’s Wrong With In-vitro Fertilization? - Tim DrakeCatholic teaching has called in-vitro fertilization techniques immoral for decades. But most Catholics still haven’t heard the news. Email This Article Danger Zone - Wesley J. SmithIn the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. Email This Article Debating the Embryo's Fate - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykThe debate over embryonic stem cell research continues to escalate in our country, and remains a topic of significant public interest. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 02-Jul-2008 - 10:43:51
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