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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:Establishment Bioethics - Sean MurphyThe term 'bioethics' is frequently used as if it denotes a single ethical system. In fact, bioethics is simply a branch of ethics, and the term is frequently used as an imprecise label for a range of ethical theories in medicine and medical research. Read more... Ethical Blind Spots - Rev. Tadeusz PacholczykWhen I traveled to Auschwitz a few years ago, one question played over and over in my mind: Did they know? Read more... Far from Perfect - Ryan T. AndersonA review of Michael Sandel's The Case against Perfection. Read more... Fire in the Clinic! - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.One argument that is often made to justify destroying human embryos begins like this: Read more... Follow the Money: Stem Cells and Subsidies - Jennifer Roback MorseLast week the scientific world was abuzz with the news that adult stem cells could be used to regenerate tissues and cure diseases. Read more... Formula for Producing Super-Babies - Donald DeMarco"Super-" is our most hallowed prefix, for it announces the marriage of two qualities that the modern world venerates: new and improved. If we can produce superconductors, fly at supersonic speeds, travel along superhighways, and attend Super-bowl games, why should we not direct our resourcefulness to our offspring and turn them into super-babies? Read more... Germany and Italy Have Done It — Shouldn’t We? - Father Tadeusz PacholczykLaws like those in Germany and Italy, while they would not stop every injustice done to embryos, could go a long way towards stemming the tide and assuring that further forms of laboratory barbarism and human exploitation do not become commonplace. Read more... Half Human, Half Animal? - Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D.British scientists have recently received a green light from their regulatory agency to create "hybrid embryos." Read more... Harsh Medicine: Chapter one from "Culture of Death" - Wesley J. SmithMy mother's doctor is refusing to give her antibiotics," the caller told me in an urgent voice. I asked why. "He says that she's ninety-two and an infection will kill her sooner or later, so it might as well be this infection. As disturbing as this call was, as outrageous the doctor's behavior, I wasn't particularly surprised. I have been receiving such desperate calls with increasing frequency for the last several years. Read more... Holy See's Call for a Ban on All Human Cloning - Holy See MissionHere is the text of the Holy See's speech delivered Monday at a U.N. session on human cloning. Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, gave the speech. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 07-Nov-2009 - 11:31:43
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