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Home: Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Ethics - Medical: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Pain of the Almost Dead - SUSAN MARTINUKJust how dead is “brain-dead”? The answer isn’t as simple as one might think. Email This Article 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? Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article 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. Email This Article The Unchosen Frozen - William L. SaundersThe moral problems raised by human embryonic stem-cell research (or embryo destruction) and the disposition of "excess" frozen embryos are so closely related to in vitro fertilization that Americans need to rethink the assumptions supporting the procedure. Email This Article The Views of the Holy See on Human Cloning - The Holy SeeThe Wisdom of Repugnance - Leon R. KassIf we should not underestimate the significance of human cloning, neither should we exaggerate its imminence or misunderstand just what is involved. Email This Article The Wrong Tree - Wesley J. SmithAdult — not embryonic — stems cells may be our future. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: 14-Jul-2008 - 12:48:44
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