Plastic Perfection? The Ethics of Breast Implants
In the last 10 years, the number of women undergoing breast augmentations has increased dramatically.
In the last 10 years, the number of women undergoing breast augmentations has increased dramatically.
So it will soon be legal in Britain to hybridize humans with other species, and grow humans from embryo for "scientific research" -- however medically unnecessary.
People are sometimes surprised to hear that the wrongness of destroying a human embryo does not ultimately depend on when that embryo might become a person, or when he or she might receive a soul from God.
Some physicians and researchers fail to see the important role of ethics and religion in the world of medical science.
The recent discovery that regular old garden-variety skin cells can be converted into highly flexible (pluripotent) stem cells has rocked the scientific world.
As we move into the retrospective season on 2007, there will be lists aplenty about the major stories of the past year.
Many people have uncritically accepted the idea that there is a longstanding war between science and religion.
People are intrigued and repulsed by the idea of cloning humans.